Apache::AuthCookieDBI is a module that subclasses Apache::AuthCookie and is
designed to be directly used for authentication in a mod_perl server.
It is a ticket-issuing system that looks up username/passwords in a DBI
database using generic SQL and issues MD5-checksummed tickets valid for
a configurable time period. Incoming requests with tickets are
checksummed and expire-time checked.
I would like to add the ability to use Basic Auth-like authentication cookies
(with the username/password in plaintext in the cookie itself), but I consider
the ticket-issuing capability more useful, and the ticket issuing part
is complete.
It is currently in production use at http://www.snapple.com/ and
seems to work pretty well.
If nobody objects to the name, I'll be uploading it to PAUSE soon.
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Jacob Davies
Lead UNIX Engineer
SF Interactive
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
