Hi
I am new to apache as part of project we are using apache as the web server and i really love apache Open software
I have some problem with user authentication
As part of our project we have to provide user authentication when the user clicks on the download link of a file
each user is mapped to set of roles internally and based on these roles we protect and give permissions to the directory I mean which role has access to which directory
Now I want this functionality that whent the user clicks on a download link in the page ( which is our project based page)
a c code should take the information from the HTTP header we are writing user role :password to the header check compare it with our configuration file that resides in the web server and give access to the documents
See the problem comes because we have multiple user roles so when a user logs in and he has multiple roles
we write role1,role2;password . So the problem is before the user gets a chance to download the document i wan tto authorize wheter he can really do it or not in a customised way can i do it in Apache if so please expalin
Thanks
Mouli
