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Listing 1. User Identification Program

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use CGI; # Available from http://www.perl.com/CPAN
# Create an instance of CGI
my $query = new CGI;
# Print a basic MIME type
print $query->header("text/html");
# Retrieve the user's name
my $username = $query->remote_user;
# Print some output
print $query->start_html(-title => "You are...");
print "<H1>You are...</H1>\n";
if ($username)
{
	print "<P>$username</P>\n";
}
else
{
	print "<P>unidentified!</P>\n";
}
print $query``->end_html;