hello
is this not something like what Apache::AuthCookie
or some other Auth scheme does?
or am i just missing the boat?
you could use something
like AuthCookie in a dummy situation
get $r->uri
grab the .htaccess from that location and parse?
Time Co-Ordinate Thu, 10 May 2001 23:16:29 -0600, The Organism labeled Mark
Holt said:
> >
> >
> > Not really, the current Apache doesn't let you decide on the fly whether
> > to challenge the client with basic auth or not unless you use .htaccess.
>
> If I wrote my own PerlAuthHandler, could it then choose whether to pass through
> to the standard AuthHandler?
>
> > .htaccess is not used only for auth!!! it's used for adding per-directory
> > extra configuration (usually to override the defaults).
>
> Yes I was envisioning something along these lines in the config file:
> <Perl>
> #code to determine paid status
> if ($paid) { $AllowOverride = "AuthConfig" }
> </Perl>
> Or something like that. Not being a mod_perl guru I don't know the syntax, but
> I wondered if a construct like this would work on a per-hit basis, or if not, if
> someone knew a better one.
>
> > So your second question has nothing to do with the first one :)
>
> You're right. one dealing with feasibility of checking for .htaccess files based
> on perl code, and one with scalability--not checking for .htaccess files when
> not necessary.
>
> >
> > You can specify the Auth data in your httpd.conf and avoid creating
> > .htaccess, saving processing time, but making it harder to maintain
> > (requires server restart for each modification, whereas .htaccess allows
> > to do 'hot' modifications without restarting the server.
>
> That is not feasible, because if we can't even afford to put a VirtualHost tag
> in for every user, how much less could we afford auth data and server restarts?
> But you may be on the right track. Can we use perl code in the global config
> file to control auth? I just want a way to activate the standard auth handler
> per-hit. It has to be possible in mod_perl. Someone out there has to be wizard
> enough to know how. Hopefully that person will be reading this soon.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
>
