elpmet
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Eliminate the pop-up login window ... ?
Is there any way to write a CGI script to send a username and password to pass htaccess-protected HTML pages (via apachhe server)?
I hope you know what I meant; When you go to a private site (such as bank's or members only pages), a pop-up window comes up asking for a username and password to see the protected page(s). Assuming we've got the username and password, is it possible to write a Perl CGI to send username and password to the protected page so that the pop-up window will not appear or ask for the info from the user?
And if it's possible, could you write me a simple basic code please?
Please help...!
elpmet
I hope you know what I meant; When you go to a private site (such as bank's or members only pages), a pop-up window comes up asking for a username and password to see the protected page(s). Assuming we've got the username and password, is it possible to write a Perl CGI to send username and password to the protected page so that the pop-up window will not appear or ask for the info from the user?
And if it's possible, could you write me a simple basic code please?
Please help...!
elpmet
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Hi ahoffmann,
Thank you for your code (my unix version of wget was, according to the help page, "wget --http-user=USER --http-passwd=PASS URL", by the way), but how can I use this to dump the content to the client's browser?
What I'm doing here is:
1) user visits a html page
2) the html page sends a request to the CGI script (THIS ONE)
3) and THIS CGI program connects to another remote CGI which is protected by htaccess
4) and it dumps its result back to THIS script
By the way, upon running @site='wget --http-user=myusername --http-passwd=mypassword http://my.url/' in my perl/cgi script, it gave me an internal server error (500) message. Do you know why?
Thank you for your help!!
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Elpmet.
Thank you for your code (my unix version of wget was, according to the help page, "wget --http-user=USER --http-passwd=PASS URL", by the way), but how can I use this to dump the content to the client's browser?
What I'm doing here is:
1) user visits a html page
2) the html page sends a request to the CGI script (THIS ONE)
3) and THIS CGI program connects to another remote CGI which is protected by htaccess
4) and it dumps its result back to THIS script
By the way, upon running @site='wget --http-user=myusername --http-passwd=mypassword http://my.url/' in my perl/cgi script, it gave me an internal server error (500) message. Do you know why?
Thank you for your help!!
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Elpmet.
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you need to make sure the outbound request contains a WWW-Authenticate header, this should be a base64 encription of username:password.
i have requested protected pages in C by openging a socket and sending out a complete header inclusing the www-authenticate tag.
i have requested protected pages in C by openging a socket and sending out a complete header inclusing the www-authenticate tag.
let me know if you want me to do this in perl for you,
> .. outbound request contains a WWW-Authenticate header,
will be done by wget or LWP automatically.
will be done by wget or LWP automatically.
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perldoc LWP::UserAgent
or quick&dirty solution:
@site = `wget --http-username=user --http-password=pass http://www.your.dom/page`;