On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 21:06:05, Charlie Garrison said... > The second one, Cookie Authentication with MySQL, looks like a very good > option, except for two issues. Fist, it doesn't support the 'require group...' > directive. And second, it doesn't appear to cache mysql connections so I am > concerned about the increased load from lots of quick connections. Umm, use Apache::DBI, that's what it's for.
> I feel that someone must have already solved this issue so any suggestions or > advice would be appreciated. Are there any modules which I have missed? Are > the perceived problems with the above modules really an issue, or should I be > able to use one of them without any problems. I haven't been 100% happy with any of the systems written by other people so I've always just written my own. It's a rather simple process. Right now I have one method that uses cookies in one module, another that uses cookies but splits things up into separate modules, and a third that adds a (md5 hash) parameter to the URI. All work very well, though I prefer the cookie method myself. If there's really nothing out there to add a hash to the URI, I could probably be convinced to package up the code I have, simple as it may be. -- Michael Stella | Sr. Unix Engineer / Developer | http://www.thismetalsky.org Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be Evil. - Thyra -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html