authorization by filesystem ACL

2008-07-23 Thread Paul B. Henson
I'd like to implement a web service that implements authorization based on the underlying file system ACL. Basically, when a request is made, if a file/directory is world readable, it should just be served with no authentication required. However, if a file is not world readable, authentication

Re: mod_rewrite cookies

2008-07-23 Thread Nick Gearls
On 07/19/2008 06:08 PM, Nick Kew wrote: Reviewing the backport proposal in STATUS, it amounts to http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/modules/mappers/mod_rewrite.c?r1=6394 \ 65r2=664330pathrev=664330 It still seems to be at risk of generating a malformed cookie, if secure is

Kill or Stop Http Request Processing

2008-07-23 Thread rhiren
Hi, How to stop or kill a request processing on the server side, once the client decides to abort the request. For Ex. in our web app, user can send a request to load a document. While document is being loaded we show users a processing dialog which has a cancel button. Sometimes document

Re: Kill or Stop Http Request Processing

2008-07-23 Thread Akins, Brian
On 7/23/08 2:51 PM, rhiren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I stop the processing of that request on the server, so that it does not spend any more time on the document content processing and frees up the CPU and memory. Check r-aborted -- Brian Akins Chief Operations Engineer Turner Digital

Re: Kill or Stop Http Request Processing

2008-07-23 Thread rhiren
Thank you for your reply. Can you please provide a bit more detail on how to use r-aborted ? Regards, Hiren Akins, Brian wrote: On 7/23/08 2:51 PM, rhiren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I stop the processing of that request on the server, so that it does not spend any more