HTML Authentication with Python

[Matthew T Lineen]

Jeremy Hylton (jeremy at cnri.reston.va.us) wrote:
> If you configure the server properly, users won't be able to run your
> CGI scripts until the server has checked their username and password.

Actually, I want the script to run because it pulls the "REMOTE_USER" key
and populates a field in a form.  If I knew that authentication through the
server would allow me to pull this key, I wouldn't be authenticating through
the script.  Maybe the question / issue is that I don't understand the use
of the REMOTE_USER key.