cgi authentication

[Magnus L. Hetland]

"Dan Grassi" <Dan at Grassi.com> writes:

> I need to do authentication from Python, for various reasons using Apache 
> and .htaccess is not a workable solution.  I can get the request to show up
> with the following code but I can not figure out how to access the returned
> name/password pair.  Yes, I have looked hard for the info on the web and in
> the books. "-)

Well - I have had the same problem, and AFAIK, Apache refuses to give
you the password (ostensibly for security reasons...) There is a
patched version available somewhere...

> 
> Can anyone help?
> 

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