How about an authentication plugin structure that would allow one to
load their own authentication method.

HTTP-Auth against a database, HTTP-Auth against a flat-file, HTTP-Auth
against LDAP, etc.
Digest, Certificate, Session Auth,  etc.

At least in the long run, it would be much more flexible.

The problems I have with HTTP-Auth are actually forcing me to go in the
direction of Session mananged Authentication for a number of reasons --
but those are particular issues that my clients deal with.

HTTP-Auth has no decent way of maintaining 1 User, 1 Session.  HTTP-Auth
is easily probed by automated tools (not that they cannot be developed
for other methods).  Poor Realm support (user education issue here)

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 11:52, Zoran Vasiljevic wrote:
> On Friday 31 October 2003 17:07, you wrote:
> > Not really.
> >
> > I need to do HTTP authentication. I could write an HTTP authentication
> > implementation and register that as a filter, but I'd rather not.


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