[ALUG] Creating Customer Login facility on a website

[MJ Ray]

sagr <alug1 at suffolk-ancestor-genealogy-research.co.uk> wrote: [...]
> common "Customer Area" webpage where our customers can type in their login 
> name and password and then be automatically taken to a protected personal 
> webpage listing the files waiting for them to download.  [...]

+1 to the comment about using a framework, but if you want to do this
directly, the CGI variable REMOTE_USER (so $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'} in Perl
and $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] in PHP IIRC) contains the name that they
used to login to your .htaccess protection.

Hope that helps,
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