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... where you'll see a page congratulating you on it working, and a messy dump of lots of variables (that Redbrick has access to, i.e., your "environment"), just to prove that [[User:colmmacc|colmmacc]] can't see your password :)
... where you'll see a page congratulating you on it working, and a messy dump of lots of variables (that Redbrick has access to, i.e., your "environment"), just to prove that [[User:colmmacc|colmmacc]] can't see your password :)


To get more techie, the pubcookie auth module does some clever things like enforce https (i.e. secure web - 'http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~colmmacc/yoyo/' should not work), it sets 'REMOTE_USER' to something useful (i.e. their redbrick username) and is generally cool.
To get more techie, the pubcookie auth module does some clever things like enforce https (i.e. secure web - 'http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~colmmacc/yoyo/ ' should not work), it sets 'REMOTE_USER' to something useful (i.e. their redbrick username) and is generally cool.


==To use PubCookie==
==To use PubCookie==