Hi Puneet, > Now, re. the authen mechanism. I tried Cees Hek’s > Plugin::Authentication and found it very easy to implement. However, I > am still thinking of rolling my own because I want to extend the > authentication mechanism to store extra values as user preferences, > and Plugin::Authentication seems to have sufficiently complicated > innards to dissuade me from opening it up and trying to understand it. > Nevertheless, I have two questions --
Not to sound overly rude, but this is a case of "you're doing it wrong" -- Cees Hek's Auth plugin does exactly what it should: authentication. Check out the Session plugin for cgiapp for a way to pass/store user preferences within your application. Kind regards, Stew ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
