On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 13:12:30 -0400
Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right, that's my point. Your module has overlap with them in terms of
> managing cookies and specifying locations, but adds the actual calls to
> Apache::Session. If I were doing something like this, I would probably
> start with one of the Auth modules, which already do a good job of
> handling things like cookie verification and even cookie-less sessions,
> and add the actual Apache::Session glue.
The merge code solution is a possible solution that I'll consider
> It might at least be worth stealing some code from the other modules,
> like the ticket-based cookies idea, but of course you can do what you
> like. I think it's good to have a module like this, and if you put
> yours out there people can contribute to it.
Thanks, I'll do it as soon as possible...
> Incidentally there is also
> a session manager module very similar to this in the Extropia modules.
Sincerely, I don't know Extropia modules!
>
> > I've written Apache::SessionManager to be used _also_ in a mod_perl handlers
> >
> > or in a CGI script over Registry.
>
> The Apache::Auth modules also support that.
The Apache::Auth* family support authentication with cookies but there aren't
methods to store persistent data over HTTP requests (other than session key)
Apache::SessionManager only manage sessions and actually you can write
a custom PerlAuthenHandler to autohorize user accesses to certain resources
Bye
- Enrico
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Enrico Sorcinelli - Gruppo E-Comm
Italia On Line S.p.a.
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