Hi Tosh,
Have you considered using a Web framework like Catalyst? I haven't used
Catalyst, but a cursory read of your problems makes me think that a Web
framework may have already solved most of your problems.
Take care,
Kurt Hansen
khan...@charityweb.net
Tosh Cooey wrote:
You may have seen my other recent questions to the list this month,
the gist of which is:
I want to setup an application for multiple clients, each of whom have
their own users.
http://www.site.com/clientA/application.pl
http://www.site.com/clientB/application.pl
http://www.site.com/clientX/application.pl
So the users of "clientA" log in to
http://www.site.com/clientA/application.pl and are authenticated with
Apache2::AuthCookieDBI
Now the directories clientA, clientB, etc. do not exist, I'm using
mod_rewrite to sort that out, and here starts my problems. First I'm
lost with authenticating since there's no "real" resource to
authenticate against, but I seem to have solved that by forcing
authentication against all *.pl files which luckily do exist ;)
It gets more complicated later because some URLs like
http://www.site.com/clientA/iCal can't use session cookies but have to
use BASIC AUTH, and other *.pl files can't have any authentication
applied against them.
I thought I could solve this by writing a MyAuthCookieDBI.pm but this
also isn't working out. For example MyAuthCookieDBI is an
almost-empty child. The parent (Apache2::AuthCookieDBI) has a
function _dbi_connect() which manages all the database connecting, but
I can't overwrite that function, even if MyAuthCookieDBI is the
calling object the function from Apache2::AuthCookieDBI always gets
called rather than the overridden function in my object.
That's kind of the tip of things, basically I'm realizing that I need
professional help with this task before I end up requiring
professional help for my nerves!
So if anyone can help with this then please contact me offlist with
terms.
Thanks!
Tosh
