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Comments: Password Protecting a single file with .htaccess

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Today I needed to password protect a single CGI program written in Perl using Basic authentication. I was, like most people, aware of how to protect an entire directory using the .htaccess file on an Apache HTTP server. But is there a way to password protect a single file in the cgi-bin directory? The answer is yes.

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