Project 1:
A CGI authenticating users and displaying the contents of a file.

INSS 452/752

Your group will build on the assignment 3 for the UB Programing Club (fictitious), and allow members to login and see the Club membership roster. This project assumes that you have created the members.txt file in assignment 3, including Club member's username, password (encrypted), address, name and e-mail.

1. Your first task is to create a form with title and header1: Programming Club login, which accepts username and password as input. Note: this is the login form.

2. Your second task is to download the authorize.pl script to adapt and use in your project.

3. Your third task is to modify authorize.pl script to process the login form and use the members.txt file you created in assignment 3, to authenticate the member login (check if he/she is a member or not).
   • If the the username and password entered match the ones in member.txt send a html page (part of the script) back to the user with a list of the members.txt file, including only name, address and e-mail. Do not include username and password!!!

     (Hint: when developing the script send first a page just saying Thank you! Later on write a function/sub to display the members.txt file).

   • If the username and/or the password do not match, send back a page with an error message (part of the script), with a link to get back to the login form

   Note: don't forget to encrypt the password entered in the login form before comparing with the one in members.txt.

4. Your last task is to create a page describing the project with links to your CGIs (include also the one you used to create the members.txt file). Upload the forms (the one you used in assignment 3 and the login form), scripts and the page to ubmail or home (only one is required).

5. Finally, post in the Files area of the Forum the URL of your project page in ubmail.ubalt.edu or home.ubalt.edu (P1).

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