Posted by Rick on March 23, 1999 at 23:08:04 {MWSZV6.08fSjY}:
In Reply to: *Too Many Janeys posted by NewLight2 on March 23, 1999 at 22:54:09:
Thanks for clearing this up! I only wish that I had the software development time on my hands to allow the registered screen name to automatically get entered into the Name field.
The difficulty, and someone help me out if they can, is defined this way: (1) the registration is using industry standard .HTACCESS, giving a popup dialog box with User Name and Password entry fields; (2) the problem is passing the User Name variable to the WWWBOARD.CGI script as it's preparing the posting (after poster hits Submit button). The WWWBOARD.CGI program that runs this forum is written in Perl 5 code.
Bonus if we figure this out: the Password from the popup dialog screen could get passed to the routine that crypts the I.P. address and places it with the name in the posting (that "cryptic" code). This would refine the code so that each one would be truly unique. I could even concatenate the User Name and Password to be 100% sure the code is unique to the individual poster.
If this had been implemented, this confusion wouldn't have happened. The only method of controlling "unusually large rodents" is to understand how to pass the two variables in the secure .HTACCESS to a script, something that might (or might not) be difficult considering .HTACCESS is designed securely.
Rick