Jonathan:
my $username = $c->request->params->{username} || "";
my $password = $c->request->params->{password} || "";
These had non-empty values (verified from the trace).
On 05/12/2007, Jonathan Rockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 01:31 +0800, Martin Ellison wrote:
> > I have tried doing
> >
> > if ($c->authenticate( { username => $username,
> > password => $password })) {
> > # if ($c->login($username, $password)) {
> > (ie using authenticate instead on login) but then I get
> > Use of uninitialized value in string eq
> > at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Catalyst/Authentication/Credential/Password.pm
> line 84.
> > I'm not sure at all how that happens.
>
> What are $username and $password set to?
>
> >
> > Jason: Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::Credential::Password says it
> > is a compatibility shim for old code (see
> >
> http://search.cpan.org/~jayk/Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication-0.10003/lib/Catalyst/Plugin/Authentication/Credential/Password.pm);
> then it refers us to Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::Password which
> advises using authenticate.
> >
> > But anyway authenticate does not appear to do all the login, as I
> > thought login was also suppose to register the user with the session
> > (and what else?)
>
> Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::Password::authenticate doesn't do
> that, but that's not the method that $c->authenticate calls.
> $c->authenticate does the same thing that $c->login does. (Actually
> $c->login doesn't *have* to do anything; it was all very ad-hoc. The
> new authentication separates the various concerns and ensures that
> Credentials only verify credentials.)
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan Rockway
>
>
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