Re: http auth logindialog box

Nikos wrote: 
Brian Wakem wrote:

You are clearly very confused and your problem is nothing to do with Perl.

I suggest you go to google and look up htaccess and htpasswd.  Also read
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/htaccess.html, but do not ask
question about it here - it is OT.


ok i have read and made the .htaccess and .passwd files fro http authentication purpsoses

What happens when the user enter the correct data and what happens if he doesnt?

Now i think Perl has to take control. 


No.  The webserver has control here.


if credentials are correct then games.pl would run else an error page.


The webserver does this for you if you have configured it correctly (I have pointed you towards the docs).



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Brian Wakem


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