Just to wrap this up, I've worked out what to do - passing back the original
request if I want to passthrough a handler.
Cheers,
James.
On 7 Sep 2010, at 13:51, James Jackson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm just writing some custom auth handlers for a CouchDB cluster we are
> setting up. To do what we need to do, in the security context we require, I
> need to run two such custom handlers. I believe that I should be able to do
> this with the following syntax:
>
> [httpd]
> authentication_handlers = {couch_cms_auth,
> cms_backend_authentication_handler},{couch_cms_auth,
> cms_host_authentication_hander}
>
> Now, each of these handlers on their own work just fine, but I have problems
> when attempting to use both. My understanding is that if one throws an
> unauthorized exception, then the next handler in the list should be tried.
> However, I see a throw in the first handler kill the request there and then
> with a 401, without trying the second handler.
>
> Have I misunderstood this behaviour, or do I need to modify how I write my
> custom handlers so they behave with each other?
>
> Best regards,
> James Jackson.
