libapache-authcookie-perl | Apache/mod_perl Authentication and Authorization via cookies | Mehr ...
This package contains a Perl module, Apache::AuthCookie, which can be used to simplify the creation of mod_perl based web sites that require user authentication. This module is used by various Web application frameworks written in Perl. . Apache::AuthCookie allows you to intercept a user's first unauthenticated access to a protected document. The user will be presented with a custom form where they can enter authentication credentials. The credentials are posted to the server where AuthCookie verifies them and returns a session key. . The session key is returned to the user's browser as a cookie. As a cookie, the browser will pass the session key on every subsequent accesses. AuthCookie will verify the session key and re-authenticate the user.