On 8/3/06 7:51 AM, "Vladimir S. Tikhonjuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm thinking about 2 methods of authentication users for my site.
> May be you'll help me to choose one of them, or advice me something else.
>
> The first method: using PerlAuthenHandler on '/' Location.
>
> The second method: simple handler, for example
> http://localhost/login, which checks login and password, If everything
> is O.K. make session, send cookie with session id. And another handler
> which checks every reqest for Cookie with session id and desided whether
> to give access or not.
>
> Disadvantage (as I think) of first method: before every request make
> SQL query to the database for varification login and password.
You can do both. See things like:
http://search.cpan.org/~mschout/Apache-AuthCookie-3.10/lib/Apache/AuthCookie
.pm
Sean
