Byron Ellacott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying rather unsuccessfully to write an Authen handler that
> is able to detect an SSL connection and use the SSL certificate serial
> as an index into a database table.
>
> The problem I'm facing is how to discover the SSL connection information
> in an Authen handler.
>
> At a later phase, the SSL certificate is available in
> $r->subprocess_env(), in various forms. I can, for example, turn on
> SSLOptions +StdEnvVars and access
> $r->subprocess_env("SSL_CLIENT_M_SERIAL") and get what I'd expect.
> However, authenticating and authorizing in the Response phase has
> several downsides. The first is that there are phases specifically for
> this work. The second is that if (when) I want to replace SSL
> authentication with Basic, or with JRandomAuthenModule, I'll have to
> modify my Response handler, or have it do an ifthenelsifthenelse block.
>
> So, from reading the mod_ssl source, it appears all the information I
> want is attached to the request object in a pool. APR::Pool has no
> manpage, I can't figure out how APR::Pool ties into the mod_perl source
> code, and basically I'm completely stuck with no idea how to, or even if
> I can, access this information.
You are talking about mod_perl 2.0, aren't you? Please make that clear
upfront, preferrably in the subject of your post.
What do you need APR::Pool for? What are you trying to do (code sample)
and failing to?
APR::Pool is just a class that encapsulates the apr_pool objects. There
is not much you can do with these objects. You can find the sample usage
in t/response/TestAPR/pool.pm.
As previously mentioned here, currently if you need to know how a new
Apache:: or APR:: class works, your best source of information is the
test suite, unless you prefer to look at the source code.
The new manpages won't be written until we get the automated docs
generation based on httpd-2.0 header files working. There are too many
manpages and the API is still changing so it doesn't worth doing any
manual work before it gets frozen.
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