- From: Luke Gonze <applix!luke@uunet.uu.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:31:25 -0500 (EST)
- To: applix!uunet!w3.org!www-talk@uunet.uu.net
although cgi scripts don't get the www-authenticate header, you can get this information by hooking into the netscape server api. Overall I've found nsapi pretty usable. Granted, getting married to netscape may be a tragic fate. But you can handle the authentication yourself, and you can arrange to pass authentication data to cgi scripts that need to be informed. >The real problem is that the CGI script doesn't get invoked > until *after* the username and password are validated. If you want the CGI > script to do the validation, you're out of luck. >Your real problem is a DIFFERENT problem than not being able to get the authentication headers. If you want your CGI script to do authentication, you need to disable the server authentication. You'll then have to get the authentication data from the server somehow. --- Luke Gonze --- luke@applix.com --- --- Software Engineer, Applix Espresso project ---
Received on Thursday, 28 March 1996 12:21:48 UTC