Getting User Name With Apache Basic Authentication

[Kurt Jansen]

Thanks Oleg,

I had to password protect my cgi-bin directory also with .htaccess, and then this environment variable worked.  I accessed it with the os.environ['REMOTE_USER'] function.
Kurt
-----Original Message-----
From: "Oleg Broytmann"<phd at phd.pp.ru>
To: "Kurt Jansen"<KurtJansen at go.com>
Cc: python-list at python.org
Date: Fri Aug 24 01:02:22 PDT 2001
Subject: Re: Getting User Name With Apache Basic Authentication

>On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Kurt Jansen wrote:
>> I would like to set up password protected directories for my Web site
>> (Apache) using the htpasswd/.htaccess.  This means that whenever a user
>> requests a page in the protected directory, they get prompted for a
>> userid/password.  I would like to capture the userid that the user enters
>> from within my Python CGI script.  This seems like it would be a common
>> thing to do, but I can't find anything in the Python library or this
>> newsgroup that addresses it.  Anyone have any suggestions?
>
>   It has nothing with Python library. User name is available to a CGI
>program in OS environment. Just read CGI specification and figure it out.
>The variable name is REMOTE_USER. I hope you can read env vars in Python.
>
>Oleg.
>----
>     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd at phd.pp.ru
>           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
>


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