On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 13:12:30 -0400
Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Right, that's my point.  Your module has overlap with them in terms of 
> managing cookies and specifying locations, but adds the actual calls to 
> Apache::Session.  If I were doing something like this, I would probably 
> start with one of the Auth modules, which already do a good job of 
> handling things like cookie verification and even cookie-less sessions, 
> and add the actual Apache::Session glue.

The merge code solution is a possible solution that I'll consider 

> It might at least be worth stealing some code from the other modules, 
> like the ticket-based cookies idea, but of course you can do what you 
> like.  I think it's good to have a module like this, and if you put 
> yours out there people can contribute to it. 

Thanks, I'll do it as soon as possible...

> Incidentally there is also 
> a session manager module very similar to this in the Extropia modules.

Sincerely, I don't know Extropia modules!

> 
> > I've written Apache::SessionManager to be used _also_ in a mod_perl handlers
> > 
> > or in a CGI script over Registry.
> 
> The Apache::Auth modules also support that.

The Apache::Auth* family support authentication with cookies but there aren't
methods to store persistent data over HTTP requests (other than session key)

Apache::SessionManager only manage sessions and actually you can write
a custom PerlAuthenHandler to autohorize user accesses to certain resources

Bye

        - Enrico 




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