On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Bill Moseley wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Perrin Harkins wrote:
>
> > Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
> > > Yes, but you're then making the authorization layer inseparable from
> > > your applicative layer, and hence you loose the interest of using
> > > separate handlers.
> >
> > It's pretty hard to truly separate these things.  Nobody wants to use
> > basic auth, which means there is a need for forms and handlers.  Then
> > you have to keep that information in either cookies or URLs, and there
> > is usually a need to talk to an external data database with a
> > site-specific schema.  The result is that plug and play auth schemes
> > only work (unmodified) for the simplest sites.
>
> Anyone using PubCookie?
>
> http://www.washington.edu/pubcookie/

All C, no?

- nick

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