Walter Goulet wrote: > I'm looking for some input from the experts to help validate a solution > approach that I've come up with. The problem I'm trying to solve is that > allow NAS equipment and other RADIUS clients to authenticate users > against a proprietary authentication service that uses REST APIs over HTTP.
That works... provided that the backend is fast. > The solution that I've put together is to use rlm_perl which allows me > to use standard Perl modules to interact with the authentication > service. I'm pretty happy with the results so far in that I am able to > build exactly what I need and authentication against the webservice > works just fine. That's the real test: it works. > The question to the list, are there other solution approaches that might > be better? Any significant disadvantages to using rlm_perl as I've > described? Would it be better to write a custom module instead, hoping > that by doing so there may be some performance improvements? In git "master" there's an rlm_rest module. That *might* be higher performance. But if it works, don't touch it until there are issues. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
