Piping a Javascript prompt to a scalar
Fred Steinberg
fred at alaska.net
Fri Apr 2 17:34:30 CST 1999
>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Creason <kevinc at gci.net> writes:
Kevin> I'm trying to pipe a javascript prompt into a scalar.
...
Kevin> I tried $scalar=(print all that stuff); and $scalar=<STDIN>; and
Kevin> $scalar=$ARGV[0];
It doesn't work that way a'tall; by the time the Javascript is executing
(in the browser), your perl script (running on the server) has exited.
Kevin> Is there are better way to get a username before a CGI proceeds?
You might want to look into using server authentication; the user must
identify themselves before your CGI is ever run. Then, in your script, you
can simply do:
$username = $ENV{REMOTE_USER};
This is a useful link about Web-based login:
http://www.webthing.com/tutorials/login.html
(not really anything to do with Perl, mind you.)
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