Re: Getting username and password from the URL.

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$ENV{REMOTE_USER} will give you the username, after it's been authenticated by the web server.

If you've built your own server out of something like HTTP::Daemon, you can get a request object and grab the Authorization header to parse it yourself:

my $r = $daemon->get_request();
my ($username, $password) = split(/:/, $r->header('Authorization'), 2)
+;
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Update:

Yeah, that did say 'REQUEST_USER' before. Sorry, I merged the right line with the description of 'REQUEST_METHOD' as I read it.

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Re: Re: Getting username and password from the URL. by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Apr 08, 2003 at 20:48 UTC
Are you aware of an existing HTTP::Daemon-side implementation of Digest authentication?	[reply]

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