Thanks for everyone's responses. I managed to get this working in principle by:
1) using mod_proxy and mod_rewite to create the proxy through to the server. 2) PerlAuth* handlers to determine user access Thanks Dan -----Original Message----- From: Dan Horne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 13 August 2004 6:27 a.m. To: 'Stas Bekman' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Proxying access to restricted information Thanks for your suggestion. I know nothing about mod_perl 2, and will look at the documentation today. I do have a couple of questions: 1. Is Apache 2 and mod_perl 2 stable? It may be a silly question, as they've been around for a while, but we've been an Apache v1 shop, and I've never used mod_perl v2 at all. Heck, I've only played with mp v1 in my own time 2. Because I have to justify my investigative time to the boss, I need to know that what I want to do is possible, namely: providing a reverse proxy to an existing website, where the proxy will programmatically allow users through depending on their access rights. It's due to this authentication requirement that I can't use mod_rewrite by itself Dan -----Original Message----- From: Stas Bekman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 12 August 2004 5:07 p.m. To: Dan Horne Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Proxying access to restricted information Dan Horne wrote: > Following on from this, it seems that the PerlTransHandler looked like > my best bet, but it doesn't seem to be able to alter the hostname > (please correct me if there is a way to do this, as I struggled with > it so far) > > I guess mod_rewrite allows the hostname to be altered, but I need to > intercept the request and perform access checks, and I don't know if I > can do this before mod_rewrite kicks in during the request lifecycle. With mod_perl 2, you can use http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-Filter-HTTPHeadersFixup/ which is perfect for proxying as it does the work long before mod_rewrite kicks in. This module is a connection level filter. -- __________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com -- 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
