On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:44:09 -0600, Geoffrey G. Hankerson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to create an app where some pages (or run modes) are world
> viewable while others (those that involve modifying the site) require
> authentication.
There is an Authentication plugin for CGI::Application that has been
posted on the list if you care to look in the archives. It currently
requires a bit more work than you may care to do, since it requires
you to patch CGI::Application. If you can wait another couple of
weeks, we may have a more complete (prepackaged) solution for this.
> So my thinking was to use CGI:Session and create a subroutine or 2 to
> check if there is a current session and if session->param('logged_in')
> is true. If so continue to page the user requested; if not reroute to
> login page.
If you want to use CGI::Session, have a look at the
CGI::Application::Plugin::Session module which uses CGI::Session, and
does all the hard work for you. Also, instead of rolling your own
authentication code, have a loog at CGI::Session::Auth which give a
nice framework for authentication and authorization (this is what the
Auth plugin I mention above uses).
> I have a sub called secrity_checkup which I call at the start of a run
> mode which needs authentication. This sub calls the get_session_id which
> creates the session if it doesn't already exist. The problem is
> session->param('logged_in') always evaluates to false. Where am I going
> wrong?
My guess would be that you are having cookie problems. Are you
setting a cookie when the session is created, so that on the next
request you know which session to use? Otherwise you will get a new
session every time. Also, make sure that your session changes are
actually being written to your data store.
You might save some trouble by doing your authentication checks in the
cgiapp_prerun method, which gets called right before your runmode gets
called. This means you won't have to add your bit of code to the
beginning of each runmode.
> (Please go easy on me - they made me do cut and paste data entry for a
> year straight and I can't seem to write code anymore)
That sounds painful. Nice to hear you are moving on to more interesting tasks.
Cheers,
Cees
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