Member-only authorization script

[Anon]

I'm attempting to run a php script (phpSecurePages) designed to keep non-members out of a certain area on my site. The files I want protected have the code

include("phpSecurePages/secure.php");

at the top of the page to call the script and verify if the user is logged in. It works great for php files, but does anyone know how I might go about protecting .pl files in my cgi-bin?

Hopefully this isn't too off-topic. I apologize if it is. Any help is very much appreciated though. Thanks.

[ziggs]

Don't worry bout it being off topic. I do not know all the answers but if you own the box (server) then simply just have it marked as read and execute only. That will protect them from stupidity. I can be way off but its always good to have the files you really care about in that manner. If you don't own the host then....just sit back and hopefully someone will outpost me. 🙂
Ziggs

[Anon]

well, that depends on whether or not secure pages is cookie or session based. if it's cookie based you can get yr perl script to implement the "protection" itself. this is probably a lot of work. if secure pages runs off sessions, it's going to be more hassle still.

ultimately you'll probably have to write your own protection scheme or port your cgis to php.

[Anon]

I'll try to work with the cookie idea and see what happens. It sounds like a good possibility. Looks like I've got alot of reading ahead of me! 😉 Thanks for the help.