11-14-2008
I'm not exactly sure what you meant by "I do not want to restrict the page to a few. Will this method not require me to explicitly add usernames of who can access". Well, there must be a list of users defined with password (password store) with any kind of authentication system. However, you can choose a format that allows you to more easily update who can have access (i.e. update the access list). You can also choose between an allow-by-default policy or a deny-by-default policy. That is if you don't want to have everybody authenticate, you can use an allow-by-default policy to define those explicitly require authentication, while the unstated ones can enter without authentication. This is all possible with easy Apache config.
The default password store is a text file. But Apache contains additional modules that allows you to put the authentication info in SQL database or DBM files that you can choose from. You can modify data stored in them from Perl.
I suggest you build yourself a simple test environment and see if that fits your use case because I'm not exactly sure what you meant.
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cgi::xml
XML(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation XML(3pm)
NAME
CGI::XML - Perl extension for converting CGI.pm variables to/from XML
SYNOPSIS
use CGI::XML;
$q = new CGI::XML;
# convert CGI.pm variables to XML
$xml = $q->toXML;
$xml = $q->toXML($root);
# convert XML to CGI.pm variables
$q->toCGI($xml);
DESCRIPTION
The CGI::XML module converts CGI.pm variables to XML and vice versa.
CGI::XML is a subclass of CGI.pm, so it reads the CGI variables just as CGI.pm would.
METHODS
$q = new CGI::XML
creates a new instance of CGI::XML. You also have access to all of the methods in CGI.pm.
$q->toXML([$root])
where $root is an optional parameter that specifies the root element. By default, toXML will not return a root element.
$q->toCGI($xml)
where $xml is the XML you would like to convert to CGI.pm parameters. Values in the XML will overwrite any existing values if they
exist.
NOTE
CGI::XML does not currently handle multiple selections passed from HTML forms. This will be added in a future release.
AUTHOR
Jonathan Eisenzopf <eisen@pobox.com>
CONTRIBUTORS
David Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net>
SEE ALSO
perl(1), XML::Parser(3).
perl v5.8.8 2004-12-05 XML(3pm)