I need to decide who has access based on the URI. I guess this means I can't use Apache's Basic auth module, since I can't dynamically set require. Does the cookbook have a code sample of checking the password for basic authentication?
-Todd On Mon, 20 May 2002, Geoffrey Young wrote: > > > Todd Chapman wrote: > > > Can dir_config be used to set 'require' in an authentication handler? > > > no. dir_config() provides access to a mod_perl specific table of variables, not >generic > Apache configuration directives. > > there is no API for setting the Require directive - it needs to be in your >httpd.conf. > > > > I would then return DECLINED do that Apache's Basic auth handler would do > > the heavy lifting of checking the password. > > if you're looking to do conditional authentication what you really need to do is a >bit > backward - turn on all authentication hooks using the Require directive then use >your > handler to return OK when you don't want Apache to check the password. See recipe >13.5 in > the cookbook for more information. > > the "Satisfy any" Apache directive may be able to help as well if you're using >host-based > criteria to determine whether you want to require a login. > > HTH > > --Geoff >
