Andrew Payne wrote:
On Jan 23, 2008 2:30 PM, Ian Docherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:This might seem like a stupid question, and one that probably has a I could use Apache Basic Authentication, but I would prefer to hold usernames passwords in a database rather than a htpasswd file.Just do my ($username, $password) = $c->req->headers->authorization_basic; There's no need to have Apache handle it. I have an app with both an HTML and a REST/XML interface (under '/REST/'), and simply give the REST controller its own auto() sub, containing the above line. Works fine. Andrew
I went down an similar somewhat evil path for Mango.Since Mango has a custom Auth store/user anyways, I make my authenticate forward to authorization_basic when no options were passed:
## uses Auth/Store
$c->authenticate({
username => $user, password => $pass
});
## uses HTTP Auth plugin
$c->authenticate();
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