Good afternoon, On 27/8/03 at 12:05 AM -0400, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>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. Except that I'm looking for a solution which will also work in the static (proxy) front-end. I'm currently using Apache::DBI for the backend and it works well. I also want a solution which doesn't rely on browser based http authentication since logging out is a requirement. >>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. Do you also write the apache module for the frontend server? I'm very competent at perl, but not competent enough to write an apache module. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Charlie -- Charlie Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 141, Windsor, NSW 2756, Australia -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
