[DAL]

I'm having a slight (massive) brain bashing experience trying to figure out how to get htaccess to work through a login box on the html page. When a user logs in it should be sent to the login htaccess file (I guess) so as to avoid the horrid windows username and password box popping up.

Once a user logs in how does the server know who this person is? (My resource books dont cover anything like this so I have to figure this out on my own) ie Joe_bloggs signs in and goes to his personal account information, where does the info come from and what format is it so I can use it in my perl scripts?

I'm one of the original type programmers who dont like using databases as these are (in my opinion) nacker jobs! I prefer raw text files which can be accessed easily. (if db's where so good why is the htaccess files and passwd files wrote in raw txt format...I rest my case)
Can you please keep this in mind when suggesting solutions. Thanks.

DAL

Server Linux, Telnet access denied on my server so I only have ftp access.

[YUPAPA]

You will have to write everything fully in perl and use cookie and session for keeping track of a user when he login. If you use .htaccess, you can simply use the environmental variable $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'} for getting the currently login user. Then you can do that without cookies.

You can make a script that is compatible with cookies and a .htaccess password prompt. Here is an example that I created for my hosting control panel:

username: demo
password: demo

Login via Web Site: http://web.yupapa.com/pccs.gateway?chnl=controlpanel
.htaccess Password Prompt: http://cp2.yupapa.com

[DAL]

Thanks YUPAPA. I think that might get me started. Can you recommend any perl books that go into this and would help be build a half - as - good site that you have?

Im in England (UK) so it would have to be by a popular press.

(I currently have a programming perl oreilly book and also perl in a nutshell which is also oreilly)

Thanks
DAL

[YUPAPA]

I also like the oreilly cookbook... If you are new to perl, I recommend the "beginning perl" book written by Simon Cozens. It is very easy to understand.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...lance&n=507846

I only have two books