Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-28 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good afternoon, On 27/8/03 at 9:45 AM -0400, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Any other suggestions? > >I'd think you'd want to have the same authentication process for both, and a >shared database (or something) to store the session data. Have the front-end >do the login part, pass the cl

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-28 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good afternoon, On 27/8/03 at 9:37 AM -0400, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>The reason this question is mod_perl related is that he is doing the >>initial authentication using mod_perl, and is creating a cookie based >>ticket. But he wants that ticket to also be accepted by a >>non-mod_per

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-27 Thread Michael
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 15:45:11, Charlie Garrison said... > >I haven't been 100% happy with any of the systems written by other > >people so I've always just written my own. It's a rather simple > > Do you also write the apache module for the frontend server? I'm very > competent at perl, but n

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-27 Thread Michael
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 14:49:05, Cees Hek said... > It was easy to miss in the email if you skimmed it, but he is looking for a C > based module, so any perl based solutions are out. Whoops, you're right, I did just skim it. > The reason this question is mod_perl related is that he is doing th

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-27 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good afternoon, On 27/8/03 at 12:05 AM -0400, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>The second one, Cookie Authentication with MySQL, looks like a very >>good option, except for two issues. Fist, it doesn't support the >>'require group...' directive. And second, it doesn't appear to cache >>mysql

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-27 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good afternoon, On 27/8/03 at 2:49 PM +1000, Cees Hek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Umm, use Apache::DBI, that's what it's for. > >It was easy to miss in the email if you skimmed it, but he is looking for a C >based module, so any perl based solutions are out. > >The reason this question is mod_p

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-27 Thread Cees Hek
Quoting Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 21:06:05, Charlie Garrison said... > > > The second one, Cookie Authentication with MySQL, looks like a very good > > option, except for two issues. Fist, it doesn't support the 'require > group...' > > directive. And second, it doesn

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-27 Thread Michael
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 21:06:05, Charlie Garrison said... > The second one, Cookie Authentication with MySQL, looks like a very good > option, except for two issues. Fist, it doesn't support the 'require group...' > directive. And second, it doesn't appear to cache mysql connections so I am > con

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-27 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good morning, On 26/8/03 at 8:26 PM +0200, Thomas Klausner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi! > >On Die, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:06:05 +1000, Charlie Garrison wrote: > >>I need to protect resources in both the static (proxy) front-end and >>the mod_perl back-end. I have been using standard http authentic

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-26 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Die, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:06:05 +1000, Charlie Garrison wrote: > I need to protect resources in both the static (proxy) front-end and the > mod_perl back-end. I have been using standard http authentication which works > pretty well except for not allowing a proper logout function and some ca

Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-26 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good evening, I have done a bit of research and found some possible solutions, but none of them seem to be exactly what I want. First, the problem I need to solve... I need to protect resources in both the static (proxy) front-end and the mod_perl back-end. I have been using standard http authent