Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-28 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good afternoon, On 27/8/03 at 9:37 AM -0400, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason this question is mod_perl related is that he is doing the initial authentication using mod_perl, and is creating a cookie based ticket. But he wants that ticket to also be accepted by a non-mod_perl enabled

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-28 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good afternoon, On 27/8/03 at 9:45 AM -0400, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any other suggestions? I'd think you'd want to have the same authentication process for both, and a shared database (or something) to store the session data. Have the front-end do the login part, pass the client to

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-27 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good morning, On 26/8/03 at 8:26 PM +0200, Thomas Klausner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On Die, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:06:05 +1000, Charlie Garrison wrote: I need to protect resources in both the static (proxy) front-end and the mod_perl back-end. I have been using standard http authentication

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-27 Thread Michael
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 21:06:05, Charlie Garrison said... The second one, Cookie Authentication with MySQL, looks like a very good option, except for two issues. Fist, it doesn't support the 'require group...' directive. And second, it doesn't appear to cache mysql connections so I am

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-27 Thread Cees Hek
Quoting Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 21:06:05, Charlie Garrison said... The second one, Cookie Authentication with MySQL, looks like a very good option, except for two issues. Fist, it doesn't support the 'require group...' directive. And second, it doesn't appear

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-27 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good afternoon, On 27/8/03 at 2:49 PM +1000, Cees Hek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umm, use Apache::DBI, that's what it's for. It was easy to miss in the email if you skimmed it, but he is looking for a C based module, so any perl based solutions are out. The reason this question is mod_perl

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-27 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good afternoon, On 27/8/03 at 12:05 AM -0400, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The second one, Cookie Authentication with MySQL, looks like a very good option, except for two issues. Fist, it doesn't support the 'require group...' directive. And second, it doesn't appear to cache mysql

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-27 Thread Michael
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 14:49:05, Cees Hek said... It was easy to miss in the email if you skimmed it, but he is looking for a C based module, so any perl based solutions are out. Whoops, you're right, I did just skim it. The reason this question is mod_perl related is that he is doing the

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-27 Thread Michael
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 15:45:11, Charlie Garrison said... I haven't been 100% happy with any of the systems written by other people so I've always just written my own. It's a rather simple Do you also write the apache module for the frontend server? I'm very competent at perl, but not

Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-26 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good evening, I have done a bit of research and found some possible solutions, but none of them seem to be exactly what I want. First, the problem I need to solve... I need to protect resources in both the static (proxy) front-end and the mod_perl back-end. I have been using standard http

Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend

2003-08-26 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Die, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:06:05 +1000, Charlie Garrison wrote: I need to protect resources in both the static (proxy) front-end and the mod_perl back-end. I have been using standard http authentication which works pretty well except for not allowing a proper logout function and some