Zoran,

Could auth schemes not be implemented via trace filters?

-- Dossy


On 2002.04.08, Zoran Vasiljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 08 April 2002 19:29, Tom Jackson wrote:
>
> >
> > Someone mentioned that it is difficult to use a different authentication
>
> I'm afraid it was me :)
>
> > method in AOLserver. I remember looking through the sources, and seeing
> > that all you need to do is write a new C function for this. I'm not sure if
> > you have to actually edit the core files to add a new authentication
> > method.
>
> This would be a good thing, but I'm afraid it is not that simple.
>
> What would be needed is something like Ns_RegisterAuthType()
> kind of thing which would invoke user-supplied function when
> the server does the  request authorization.
> Additionaly, one should be able to attach different authorization
> schemes to different parts of the servers URL space. This again
> is not taken care in the current state.
>
> There are couple of other issues, related to server itself,
> not the nsperm module, which I can't list here, but I've
> spotted them as I was snooping arround...
>
> Zoran

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