Re: notes() and mod_perl ErrorDocuments

[Geoffrey Young]

Hann, Brian wrote:
Thanks, that worked.  Now I can use the regular authentication stuff.

As I said in my last email, in the interest of preventing location
pollution, is there some way I could make those PerlSetVars available to
subsequent requests to a different location?  I can't think of any way
to do it without copying them to a separate location for each one.
Perhaps with some kind of shared memory?
well, given your example setup

<Location /bob>
    AuthType basic
    AuthName bob
    PerlAuthenHandler Module::authen
    PerlAuthzHandler Module::authz
    PerlSetVar system_id 123
    PerlSetVar enc_key 187187815781
    Require valid-user
    ErrorDocument 401 /auth_fail_bob
</Location>
</Location /auth_fail_bob>
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlHandler AuthFailure
    PerlSetVar system_id 123
    PerlSetVar enc_key 187187815781
</Location>
I would think you could make that

ErrorDocument 401 /auth_fail

<Location /bob>
    AuthType basic
    AuthName bob
    PerlAuthenHandler Module::authen
    PerlAuthzHandler Module::authz
    PerlSetVar system_id 123
    PerlSetVar enc_key 187187815781
    Require valid-user
</Location>
</Location /auth_fail>
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlHandler AuthFailure
</Location>
the use the $r->prev() trick - requests to /bob that result in 401 errors 
handled by /auth_fail will have bob's PerlSetVar stuff in 
$r->prev->dir_config, same for /bill and /biff.

is that not what you mean?

--Geoff