PerlAuthnHandler how to keep the username and password for

Hi,

I am new to mod_perl, and this has puzzled me for quite some time. I will =
appreciate any thoughts/ideas/input on how to do this.


I used mod_perl to write a customized module of perlAuthnHandler. my =
handler is trying to access some third party database for authentication, =
get back the username and password, and keep them with the apache server =
so that later I could retrieve the username and password using HttpServletR=
equest in my java code.


I've tried=20

$r->set_basic_credentials($username, $passwd);
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to send the username and password back, but it didn't work.

Also when I return , should I use POST or GET method?


Thanks a lot!

Yuan