Re: Perl And Apache.


it_says_BALLS_on_your_forehead wrote:
> Morris.C wrote:
> > A quick Perl (or it could be Apache!) question:
> >
> > After UserID/Password authentication on a web page, does Apache store the
> > UserID in an environment variable that a Perl script could use?
> >
> > I've used a Perl script called 'test-cgi', but the UserID that it always
> > returns is "apache".
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> if you are using the CGI module, you have access to any html form
> values that you submitted through POST, or that you entered in the
> query string.
>
> so if on one page, you had a link (or form action to) /cgi-bin/page2.pl
>
> in page2.pl, you could have:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use strict; use warnings;
> use CGI;
>
> my $user = param('user');

....sorry, that should be:
my $user = param('username');

in this example

>
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> print "$user<br>\n";
>
>
> ...if on the first page you had:
> <input type=text name=username id=username value="">
>
> something like that. the id is optional, but CGI requires that the html
> tag have a name attribute.

.

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