Hi,
I am still pretty new to mod_perl and have only really dabbled with a
few small applications that I created. I am now looking to build
something quite specific and was wondering if anyones know of anything
similar to what I want to do so or whether they have any pointers as to
mod_perl's
Abdul-wahid Paterson wrote:
I wanted to develop a caching proxy that will return a cached page
instead of passing control to one of the PHP scripts or Perl scripts
that normally generate the pages.
This is called a reverse proxy and is very common in mod_perl setups.
It is typically done with
One extra requirement is that some of the pages need authentication
which is cookie based. I would need to check the cookie against a
database to see if the caller is authenticated to access the particular
page. Has anyone done/seen anything similar implemented in mod_perl?
That's very
Abdul-wahid Paterson wrote:
In the docs you cited, it says:
ProxyPass happens before the authentication phase, so you do not have
to worry about authenticating twice.
Hmmm, I thought you had an opportunity to do access control first.
Look at this, from the mod_proxy docs:
