Hello,
GY>well, it's an API in that it doesn't do anything for you except provide
GY>an API. meaning, I'd expect Apache::AuthDigest to work as so:
GY>
GY>PerlAuthenHandler Apache::AuthDigest
GY>
GY>all this module does is provide methods that parallel
GY>$r->get_basic_auth_pw() and $r->note_basic_auth_failure - you need to
GY>use the methods yourself to build an actual authentication mechanism.
I just commented this because it would make more sense to me as someone
looking to implement digest authentication in Perl if an
Apache::AuthDigest module existed which WAS useable directly as a
PerlAuthenHandler (with a configuration API identical or similar to
mod_digest.c), and the API came bundled with it if you wanted to use it
directly.
I could imagine there being a different namespace (I want the methods, so
I use Apache::AuthDigest::API), or Deep Perl Magick (when I use
Apache::AuthDigest::API in a handler or an Apache::Registry script,
$r->note_basic_auth_failure() suddenly just works because someone mucked
with Apache's namespace), or some permutation thereof (when I have
Apache::AuthDigest as a PerlAuthenHandler, $r->note_basic_auth_failure()
just works in any associated mod_perl handlers or scripts).
That would mean that you could just download one package, with a name one
would expect when asking the question "how can I implement digest
authentication in a mod_perl enabled server without recompiling Apache?"
On a totally different note, I can't seem to get this module to load
properly at build time:
% perl Makefile.PL
% make
% perl -Mblib -MApache::DigestAPI -e0
Can't locate loadable object for module Apache::DigestAPI in @INC (@INC contains:
/home/andrew/install/pm/Apache-DigestAPI-0.01/blib/arch
/home/andrew/install/pm/Apache-DigestAPI-0.01/blib/lib
/usr/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.6.1 /usr/local/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.6.1
/usr/libdata/perl5 /usr/local/libdata/perl5
/usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd
/usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl
/usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at -e line 0
This is on OpenBSD 3.1, with Perl 5.6.1. After installing the module
anyway and trying it inside mod_perl itself, I get a similar error in the
server error_log:
[Thu May 23 14:21:30 2002] [error] Can't locate loadable object for module
Apache::DigestAPI in @INC (@INC contains:
/home/andrew/pm/Zeuscat-Addressbook/blib/arch
/home/andrew/pm/Zeuscat-Addressbook/blib/lib
/usr/local/encap/mod_perl-1.26/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-openbsd
/usr/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.6.1 /usr/local/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.6.1
/usr/libdata/perl5 /usr/local/libdata/perl5
/usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd
/usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl
/usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl . /home/andrew/httpd/
/home/andrew/httpd/lib/perl) at
/var/www/htdocs/zeuscat.com/andrew/test/digest/digest.pl line 9
Compilation failed in require at
/var/www/htdocs/zeuscat.com/andrew/test/digest/digest.pl line 9.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/var/www/htdocs/zeuscat.com/andrew/test/digest/digest.pl line 9.
I also note that during building, I end up with a Session.so in blib/arch,
but after doing make install, Session.so disappears. There is also an
DigestAPI.xs that gets copied into blib/lib/Apache, which seems fishy.
Humbly,
Andrew
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