- From: Rick Silterra <rs@sun09.cci.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 08:55:33 -0500
- To: www-talk@w3.org
I have posted this query on the comp.www.servers.unix newsgroup, and gotten no response; maybe this group can give me some help or pointers. I am using the CERN www server 3.0. I have set up authentication for a directory. This works fine. I now want to some scripts that are used by this directory to have access to the REMOTE_USER variable. So, I tried mapping .../directory_tools/xxx.pl/xxx/* to /cgi-bin/xxx.pl/* , and applying the same authentication to this that was applied to the /directory/ in the first place; 1) This mapping does not seem to invoke authentication, as a result of this: 2) I never seem to be able to get access to REMOTE_USER from a script. 3)When exactly is REMOTE_USER made available to a script? 4)Anytime after authentication, when contacting this server? 5)Only for subsets of the URL for which it was invoked? Thanks in advance for any help. Rick Silterra rs@cci.com -- Rick Silterra Usenet: rs@cci.com Mail: Rick Silterra Northern Telecom Network Applications Systems Group 97 Humboldt St. Rochester NY 14609-7493 Any opinions expressed above are my own, and not those of any group with which I am associated. "Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules." Nordstrom, Inc., Employee Handbook
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