Re: [htmltmpl] securing an H::T site with username/password w/ses sion mgt1

[Puneet K. <pk...@ei...>]

Ragan, Steve wrote:

> Sorry, but I can't reply to the list from work.
> 
> Anyway, here's a link to a good explanation of it all -
> 
> http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/user.html
> 
> It's the server which senses that the request is for a 'protected' directory
> 
> and responds with an authentication challenge. Upon reciept of that
> challenge the browser 
> displays the familiar login prompt box.
> Once authenticated, the username is available in the REMOTE_USER environment
> variable.
> That's the name you can use to look up further info in the database.
> 
> Good luck,
> Steve


Thanks Steve, but that doesn't do what I need (as posted in my other 
emails), unless I haven't fully understood the flexibility and power of 
.htaccess.

I have read a fair amount of Apache docs and tutorials, as well as docs 
for various CPAN modules... the closest "tutorial" for doing what I want 
was on CGI::Session::Cookbook, but that calls for the security 
subroutine to be called at the top of every script in the directory. I 
would like this to be done automagically for every file in the directory 
and all the subdirectories, etc.

I guess what I am looking for is whether it is possible to call a perl 
script from within .htaccess (and whether that is even a correct way of 
doing this), and how I can protect my templates (.tmpl) files.

Thanks.