Getting User Name With Apache Basic Authentication

[Oleg Broytmann]

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.
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