Apache automatically puts the logged-in username in the REMOTE_USER enviromnent variable, which can be accessed by any CGI program. In Perl, it's $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'}.

As the subject suggests, I'm trying to run a Perl script on my Debian box (kernel 2.2.20, Apache 1.3.26, Perl 5.6.1). Instead of running, however, my web browser (IE5.5) tries to download the ...

There are numerous ways to redirect standard error in a Perl script. You can redirect the output from one particular command, you can combine standard error with ...

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development — no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...