Apache::ASP v 2.09, which I am working on now, will not
collect auth info by default, but only with a special
config set, so this error message will go away.
Thanks for the detective work Eric. For now, you can
just set AuthName.
--Josh
Eric Cholet wrote:
>
> I recently upgraded a server using Apache::ASP,
> and now for all ASP pages I get an error in error_log:
>
> [Tue Jan 30 19:36:46 2001] [error] [client x.y.z;t] need AuthName:
> /foo/index.asp
>
> The page is served nevertheless. There is no authentication configured.
>
> I believe I have tracked this down:
>
> Apache::ASP does
>
> sub new {
> ...
> # set up the environment, including authentication info
> # only copy %ENV if we are changing anything
> my $env;
> if(defined $r->get_basic_auth_pw) {
> $env = { %ENV };
>
> mod_perl now defaults auth_type to 'Basic', so that
> when we reach ap_get_basic_auth_pw in http_protocol.c:
>
> if (!(t = ap_auth_type(r)) || strcasecmp(t, "Basic"))
> return DECLINED;
>
> if (!ap_auth_name(r)) {
> ap_log_rerror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_NOERRNO|APLOG_ERR,
> r, "need AuthName: %s", r->uri);
> return SERVER_ERROR;
> }
>
> the first test doesn't trigger anymore, and the second
> one does.
>
> I believe this started occuring when the change was made
> to mod_perl to default auth_type to 'Basic' in revision
> 1.111 of src/modules/perl/Apache.xs.
>
> I'm not sure what the right fix is, is it legit for
> Apache::ASP to call get_basic_auth_pw when no auth is
> configured? Maybe it should first call $r->some_auth_required
> (not sure what that does)?
>
> --
> Eric
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