(this is my second send, the first did not seem to take)
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:09:25 -0800, Chris Barker wrote: > Paul Boddie wrote: > > >> With Apache-based applications, it would seem that you have to >> get Apache to "protect" the authorised areas of your site, and >> from Webware (and other components outside Apache) you apparently >> have no such fine-grained control over the >> authentication/authorisation process itself. >> > > OK, so what are people doing for WebWare sites that require > Authentication/Authorisation? > > I'm just starting on a Web app that will reuire a pretty flexible > authorization scheme -- what people see at any given URL could be > quite different depending on who they are. > > Is there anything useful in UserKit to build on? > > > Has Chuck Esterbrook abandoned us? LOL. Well I don't know if that answer has a yes or no to it. I've made quite a few improvements to MiddleKit recently, but as with all of my enhancements over the past year, they were driven by the project I was working on. I'm an independent contractor paid by the hour and combined with the fact that Webware does what I need, I'm not very proactive any more about extending it just for the sake of extending. But I'd gladly accept a contract to do so! Just so we're clear, I continue to use Webware in multiple production environments and it chugs along nicely. Getting back to UserKit, it was designed publicly through this mailing list and I laid down some initial code including MiddleKit storage and a test suite. I was expecting others to provide the file storage and chip in other code, but I guess there hasn't been interest. AFAIK Webware developers are "rolling their own". The upshot is you get exactly what you need and no more. The down side is that I imagine a lot of sites could actually share user-related code and save themselves some time, but don't. -Chuck -- http://ChuckEsterbrook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
