Re: How extensible is AuthKit?

2010-01-05 Thread Matt Feifarek
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:57 AM, James Gardner ja...@pythonweb.org wrote: One tip though, I now believe using exceptions to trigger the 401 and 403 responses and then intercepting them in WSGI middleware is not a good design pattern. New code I'm working on generates a normal response in the

Re: How extensible is AuthKit?

2010-01-05 Thread Mike Orr
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Matt Feifarek matt.feifa...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:57 AM, James Gardner ja...@pythonweb.org wrote: One tip though, I now believe using exceptions to trigger the 401 and 403 responses and then intercepting them in WSGI middleware is not a

Re: How extensible is AuthKit?

2010-01-05 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
i don't like AuthKit ( no offense James ! - it's just never served my needs ) and have had to integrate with systems like you describe. so the tips i can give are this: - create your validation and cookie-set/expire functions in something like app/lib/helpers/auth.py - put the logic you need in

Re: How extensible is AuthKit?

2010-01-04 Thread James Gardner
Hi Jamie, It sounds like you already have a farily sophisticated setup so I'd recommend rolling your own but using the AuthKit code as an example for anything you wish to build yourself. One tip though, I now believe using exceptions to trigger the 401 and 403 responses and then intercepting

Re: How extensible is AuthKit?

2010-01-04 Thread Jamie
James, Thanks for the response! I'll do as you recommend. On Jan 4, 12:57 pm, James Gardner ja...@pythonweb.org wrote: Hi Jamie, It sounds like you already have a farily sophisticated setup so I'd recommend rolling your own but using the AuthKit code as an example for anything you wish to

How extensible is AuthKit?

2010-01-01 Thread Jamie
I'm working on porting an old PHP project of mine over to Pylons. For authentication this project mainly uses a lot of Postgres stored procedures. As well as checking valid login attempts, the database generates and tracks authentication tokens that are stored client-side in cookies. Each token