On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:36:55PM +0200, Fatih Gey wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 01:05:58AM +0200, Fatih Gey wrote:
> > >
> > > i was writing my own AuthHandler with modperl v2 (v1.99_09).
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > After having entered user/pass via html-form, this authentification
> > > does his job well, but on the following request (on same browser)
> > > $obj->user doesnt seem to return any value.. so this handler tries
> > > to compare http post data ( which arent present this time) with
> > > userdata in mysql-table.. resulting in an Auth_Required error.
> >
> > Well, how do you suppose that the browser should know how and what
> > credentials to send?
> >
> > Unless you (a) create a session-cookie, (b) encode a session-kei into
> > each url or (c) use the simple but proper Basic Authentication scheme,
> > there is no way to accomplish this. And from what I gather you are not
> > doing any of that?
> >
>
> I supposed the browser to resend always an unique "bowser session
> id", which is used by apache to save certain values, like
> $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'} (similiar to a session-cookie with uid and
> serverbased $vars) .. Isn't this the way Basic Authentication
> scheme works ? ..
Nope. When the browser gets a 401 response from the server, it will
(most likely) pop up a dialog asking the user for name and
password. These credentials gets mangled into an Authorization header
which gets sent with the next request once the user klicks OK in the
dialog. Now, you can perform your authen-code as you like.
Cookies and forms' got nothing to do with it, really.
Read more here: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2617.html
