Just created a pull request at: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-chttpd/pull/147
On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 12:42 AM, Robert Samuel Newson <[email protected]> wrote: > We'd welcome a patch to restore that configurability. No particular reason to > not do it that I can think of. > >> On 14 Oct 2016, at 07:35, Daniel Munch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello together, >> >> I've been reading through the mailing lists and the JIRA issues and >> the issue came up already twice: There's currently no possibility for >> configuring authentication_handlers for chttp like there was for http. >> >> 1) http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/201609.mbox/browser >> 2) http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201609.mbox/browser >> >> The thing is: I'd love to test and use CouchDb 2.0 on our project, >> however I do depend on a third-party authentication module >> (couch_jwt_auth). >> >> So I went ahead and went checking the sources (always handy to know at >> least some erlang when you're using CouchDb!) and realized that it >> would actually be pretty straight-forward to use the mechanism used in >> couch_httpd.erl also for chttpd to make authentication_handlers >> configurable and thus third-party auth modules available. >> >> But before I start hacking away and send a pull-request I wondered if >> there was a deeper reason for why this hasn't been done yet and which >> I'm still ignoring/overseeing? >> >> Thanks a lot in advance, and thanks a lot for the effort put into CouchDb, >> Daniel >
