It's not very nice to imply that the failures are the fault of said developers (especially when said developers know where you sit).
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:09:27 -0500, Kreimendahl, Chad J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > nice. I just checked up on some of our old ass code in our company's > cvs server... looks like we're doing it the old way almost everywhere. > > On that note... I need to find a way to convince the developers and > webadmins that apache2 is the choice they need to make... but at the > same time it's terribly funny watching them fail over and over again to > make things happy with <unnamed third party webapp server> and mp1. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Geoffrey Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 5:28 PM > To: Kreimendahl, Chad J > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: potential bug/issue with internal_redirect in mp2 > > > OLD WAY: [broken] > > $obj->{USER_ID} = $r->user; > > $obj->{USER_PASS} = $I->get_basic_auth_pw; > > I'm not sure where you would have gotten this way from, but it is > clearly > wrong - in both apache 1.3 and 2.0 it is ap_get_basic_auth_pw that > populates > $r->user (r->user in 2.0 and r->connection->user in 1.3). > > > NEW WAY: [fixed] > > $obj->{USER_PASS} = $r->get_basic_auth_pw; > > $obj->{USER_ID} = $r->user; > > yes, this has always been the correct way. > > subrequests (of which internal_redirect is one) have a rather clever bug > in > 1.3 - r->connection->user is global to the entire request, which > includes > any subrequests. so, the "OLD WAY" would have worked for subrequests in > 1.3 > (though it should not have worked for the main request). see a post > from me > last week for more details on this exact issue. > > at any rate, this is not a mod_perl bug, or even a mod_perl feature - > it's a > feature of the apache API and there is nothing mod_perl can do about it. > > but thanks for bringing it up :) > > --Geoff > > -- > Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ > Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html > List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html > > -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
