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CGI's remote_user()
rturns $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'};
While
sub user_name {
my ($self) = self_or_CGI(@_);
return $self->http('from') || $ENV{'REMOTE_IDENT'} || $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'};
}
SO if I'm trying to get the login name I should use user_name since it will return REMOTE_USER or REMOTE_IDENT
My question is:
What is $self->http('from') ?
Is it possible/likely that $self->http('from') or REMOTE_IDENT will have a value that is not their authentication username while REMOTER_USER might be but it will never get to REMOTE_USER since one of the others are defined?
I ask because In Perl in aNutshell it's says user_name() is unreliable but doesn't say that about remote_user.
TIA
Dan
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