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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:05:57 -0500
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From: Brian Teutsch <b-teutsch@northwestern.edu>
Subject: Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Pop-up requester
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At 09:38 AM 8/14/00 +0100, you wrote:
>I wasn't actually thinking of Javascript when I posted my original question
>about a pop-up requester.  I was thinking more of the kind of pop-up requester
>you get when you try to access a restricted directory.  I don't think it's 
>done
>through Javascript - I think it's at a lower level.  (Our firewall does a
>similar thing the first time we access the net in the morning).

Although I don't know exactly how to implement it in perl, you're probably 
looking to return the WWW-Authenticate field. That's the header field that 
will cause the browser to request a username password, and return a 401 
Error code if authentication fails.


Brian Teutsch


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