OxPM: Login modules?

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Wed Apr 14 08:42:39 CDT 2004


On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 02:23:01PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> I'm writing a web script which needs to do the following: take a
> username and password, authenticate against a backend (in this case, a
> Postgres database), and if it's correct set a cookie, then check that
> cookie for each subsequent page load.
> 
> I'm sure that people have written good easy modules to do this, but I
> don't know of any. Does anybody here have a suggestion?

You'd have thought so, wouldn't you. I mean, php has this sort of
session management built in, doesn't it? The last time I looked though I
couldn't find anything for Perl, so do let me know if you find something
useful.

Cheers,

Dom.



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