Re: [OT] what drives Amazon?

2002-06-15 Thread Todd Chapman
There were a lot or perl coders when I was there for a short consulting gig. Wonder if any of my perl code still survives... -Todd On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, F. Xavier Noria wrote: Does anybody know which is the technology behind Amazon? -- fxn

Re: Setting require in Authentication handler?

2002-05-21 Thread Todd Chapman
: Todd Chapman wrote: Can dir_config be used to set 'require' in an authentication handler? no. dir_config() provides access to a mod_perl specific table of variables, not generic Apache configuration directives. there is no API for setting the Require directive - it needs to be in your

Re: Setting require in Authentication handler?

2002-05-21 Thread Todd Chapman
That makes sense. I can't use mod_auth because I can't set Require. I'm using Basic authentication and text based password files. Unfortunately, I can't find an Apache::Auth* module that handles basic authentication against text files. Did I miss it somewhere? Thanks. -Todd On Mon, 20 May

Re: Setting require in Authentication handler?

2002-05-21 Thread Todd Chapman
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Geoffrey Young wrote: Todd Chapman wrote: That makes sense. I can't use mod_auth because I can't set Require. well, if you're saying that you don't have the ability to set the Require directive at all (as in you don't have access to edit httpd.conf

Setting require in Authentication handler?

2002-05-19 Thread Todd Chapman
Can dir_config be used to set 'require' in an authentication handler? I would then return DECLINED do that Apache's Basic auth handler would do the heavy lifting of checking the password. Thanks! -Todd

Re: Remembering Authentication

2000-10-17 Thread Todd Chapman
What if the user added his username and password to the URL? If they are valid the application could add those parameters to all links/form actions, but the plaintext password would be replaced with some parameter that would be good for the next access and expire after a specified period of

Re: Bugs database?

2000-10-13 Thread Todd Chapman
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Doug MacEachern wrote: On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Todd Chapman wrote: Is there a mod_perl bugs database? I am having a problem and I want to make sure it isn't a bug in mod_perl that's fixed in a recent release. known bugs are listed in the ToDo file. P.S. The bug

Problem configuring handler in httpd.conf.

2000-10-10 Thread Todd Chapman
I am trying to set up httpd.conf so that documents in /home/httpd/html/mason are handled by HTML::Mason but documents in /home/httpd/html/mason/perl are handled by Apache::Registry. The problems in that while Mason works, the Apache::Registry cgi programs are getting dumped as plain text

How late can $r-filename be set?

2000-10-10 Thread Todd Chapman
Can I set $r-filename at the end of an PerlAuthzhandler? Thanks. -Todd

Bugs database?

2000-10-10 Thread Todd Chapman
Is there a mod_perl bugs database? I am having a problem and I want to make sure it isn't a bug in mod_perl that's fixed in a recent release. Thanks. -Todd P.S. The bug is that $r-connection-user() is not set when I return OK from my PerlAuthenHandler. I have to set it manually. Why would

PerlHandler configuration question.

2000-10-09 Thread Todd Chapman
I am servicing requests from a virtual document tree. Most of the time I want the request to be serviced by a PerlHandler module I wrote. However, if the requested filename is 'cgifile' I would rather have Apache::Registry handle the request, but since this is a virtual document tree the CGI

Third post. PLease help. PerlHandler configuration question.

2000-10-09 Thread Todd Chapman
I need to get this problem solved for a project I am working on. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. -Todd -- Forwarded message -- I am servicing requests from a virtual document tree. Most of the time I want the request to be serviced by a PerlHandler module I wrote. However,

Re: Third post. PLease help. PerlHandler configuration question.

2000-10-09 Thread Todd Chapman
ngine might not work exactly the same in this circumstance.) If I misunderstood your problem, I'm sorry for not having read closer, confused you, etc. :-) Cheers, Richard Todd Chapman wrote: I need to get this problem solved for a project I am working on. Any help is appreciated.

Re: Third post. PLease help. PerlHandler configuration question.

2000-10-09 Thread Todd Chapman
Thanks. It seems like I would want to write a PerlTransHandler. However I don't want to change the filename until after the authorization phase. Can I change the uri to filename mapping at the end of the authorization phase but before the content handler phase? Thanks. -Todd On Mon, 9 Oct

PerlHandler configuration question.

2000-10-08 Thread Todd Chapman
I am servicing requests from a virtual document tree. Most of the time I want the request to be serviced by a PerlHandler module I wrote. However, if the requested filename is 'cgifile' I would rather have Apache::Registry handle the request, but since this is a virtual document tree the CGI

$r-path_info() bug?

2000-10-05 Thread Todd Chapman
When I request the following URL with netscape: http://www.mydomain.com/mason_root/subdir/B/9/abc The request is handled by a dhandler in /mason_root/subdir Here is the dhandler: HTML HEAD TITLETest/TITLE /HEAD BODY BGCOLOR='white' This is a test. P Path_info: % $r-path_info() % /BODY /HTML

Re: PerlAuthenHandler advice needed.

2000-09-28 Thread Todd Chapman
Thanks for the help Doug. This is what I have now but all I get is a segementation fault in the log. Any ideas? -Todd package Apache::SetRealm; ## Usage: PerlHeaderParserHandler Apache::SetRealm use strict; use Apache::Constants qw(:common); sub handler { my $r = shift; # find the

Re: PerlAuthenHandler advice needed.

2000-09-28 Thread Todd Chapman
authentication but I don't want to do that. -Todd On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Doug MacEachern wrote: On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Todd Chapman wrote: Thanks for the help Doug. This is what I have now but all I get is a segementation fault in the log. $r-note_basic_auth_failure; if AuthType

Re: PerlAuthenHandler advice needed.

2000-09-28 Thread Todd Chapman
Duh! Thanks. Now, is there any way to determine the realm the browser thinks it's authentication to? Is the realm stored in the Authorization header or any other headers? -Todd On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Doug MacEachern wrote: On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Todd Chapman wrote: Thanks Doug but I

Re: PerlAuthenHandler advice needed.

2000-09-27 Thread Todd Chapman
Or you can write your own AuthHandler that lookups up AuthName, AuthUserFile in a seperate file against the path_info. This will eliminate the need to flood you httpd.conf file with a bunch of Location/Location directives. Todd Chapman wrote: I have read chapter 6 of the modperl

Re: PerlAuthenHandler advice needed.

2000-09-27 Thread Todd Chapman
the AuthUserFile 2. use Apache::Htpasswd to check password -Carlos Todd Chapman wrote: Problems with your suggestion: 1. The realm will not be known until I get path_info so Location/Location directives will not work. 2. How can I get Perl to do the password lookup

Re: PerlAuthenHandler advice needed.

2000-09-27 Thread Todd Chapman
a list of UserFiles for each Realm/path_info so that your authentication handler will know what file to check against. I hope this make sense ;) my coffee is running low... -Carlos Todd Chapman wrote: Thanks for the help. I was hoping that Apache would check the password for me