On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, David Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't use it, but it can do auth and serve images. > > as can Apache itself, with appropriate access control. The two steps > (this should not be news to anyone here) are checking the auth then > something like "exec cat $filename" for which modperl is kind of > heavy.
Perlbal does have some unique features. It can check the auth for an image with your mod_perl backend and then serve the image itself. It's built on an event loop model and it has some direct ties to MogileFS. There's a good feature list here: http://www.danga.com/perlbal/ I would typically stick with apache and mod_auth_tkt, but for people who already use MogileFS this must be a pretty attractive setup. - Perrin
