Hi Fred,
instead of trying to explain it differently, I implemented an element
that provides you with basic HTTP authentication, integrated with
RIFE's memory users.
You can find it here:
http://rifers.org/wiki/display/RIFE/HTTP+authentication
I hope this will clarify some things.
Geert
On 6-dec-05, at 12:33, F Baube wrote:
Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Geert Bevin:
Fred, you seem to have trouble to divide the architecture in
its different modules.
Oh, absolutely. Authentication in Rife is quite opaque (imho),
and I have been unable to form a "big picture" of the flows of
control, information, and authorization within the authentica-
tion system. The javadoc (for example, SessionValidator) is
quite detailed but does not fit into any larger picture.
Call me bloody stupid, but that's where I am at.
Therefore I am trying to trace existing, working code in order
to locate a code element which can be used as a prototype for
an HTTP Basic authenticator, so that it can immediately be
live-tested and debugged, and I can watch it in operation,
and learn by doing.
This is frustrating because as I said, HTTP Basic Authentication
is ridiculously simple, and could be added in to any element of
the existing codebase as optional behavior:
* If the client sends an "Authorization:" header with a valid
user:pswd pair, access is granted -- on a per-request basis
* If access is not granted to a request in this way, the reply
code is 401 _not_ 200, and the header "WWW-Authenticate:" is
added to provide a text cue to be used in a client-side
authentication dialog
fred
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