cgi authoriszation

Sat Feb 9 20:34:17 EST 2002

Is there any way to get the cgi module to do authorization. I can make scripts
demand authorization by including headers as follows

       print 'Status: 401 Authentification required'
       print 'WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="dingo"'
       print 'Content-type: text/html'
       print
       print '<html><head></head><body>Authorisation Needed</body></html>

but I don't seem to see either 'authorization' or 'http_authorization' in the
client's response. Is apache filtering out the credentials? 
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Robin Becker