Re: perl-based authentication

2001-05-11 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:50:31PM -0600, Mark Holt wrote: > parsing the .htaccess files is what I'm trying to avoid. I want the standard apache > module to do that. I just want to control *when*. have you considered breaking up the apache instances, maybe? might be a bad idea, but i thot i'd s

Re: perl-based authentication

2001-05-11 Thread Carey Burgess
Mark, I am by no means a mod_perl guru... and this may not solve your full problem... but, you could put something httpd.conf that says something like: if ($paid) then allow .htaccess files; else don't. In other words, AllowOverride AuthConfig if paid; else AllowOverride None. Something alo

Re: perl-based authentication

2001-05-10 Thread Mark Holt
parsing the .htaccess files is what I'm trying to avoid. I want the standard apache module to do that. I just want to control *when*. Clayton Cottingham aka drfrog wrote: > hello > > is this not something like what Apache::AuthCookie > or some other Auth scheme does? > or am i just missing th

Re: perl-based authentication

2001-05-10 Thread Clayton Cottingham aka drfrog
hello is this not something like what Apache::AuthCookie or some other Auth scheme does? or am i just missing the boat? you could use something like AuthCookie in a dummy situation get $r->uri grab the .htaccess from that location and parse? Time Co-Ordinate Thu, 10 May 2001 23:16:29 -0600,

Re: perl-based authentication

2001-05-10 Thread Mark Holt
> > > Not really, the current Apache doesn't let you decide on the fly whether > to challenge the client with basic auth or not unless you use .htaccess. If I wrote my own PerlAuthHandler, could it then choose whether to pass through to the standard AuthHandler? > .htaccess is not used only for

Re: perl-based authentication

2001-05-10 Thread Stas Bekman
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Mark Holt wrote: [snipped the situation explanation] > Now to my question: Is it possible, using mod_perl, to activate > Apache's standard .htaccess-based authentication scheme on a per-hit > basis, based on the results of perl code to determine whether the user > is a payi