Re: Session Handling/Set Session attributes

2007-01-18 Thread Frank Wiles
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:11:17 -0800 (PST) Tracy12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well does this all mean there is limited features to do session handling on mod_perl. Well I am new to mod_perl but in JAVA/Servlet you can do a simple thing like this

Session Handling/Set Session attributes

2007-01-17 Thread Tracy12
the value of the remote user. Currently my Auth handler does the all the tasks inside the authentication handler, which might be a performance killer thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Session-Handling-Set-Session-attributes-tf3030824.html#a8420979 Sent from the mod_perl

Re: Session Handling/Set Session attributes

2007-01-17 Thread Robert Landrum
Tracy12 wrote: My perl authentication handler works fine BUT the biggest problem inside my Auth handler I do some resource intenstive tasks and if everything successful set the REMOTE_USER env variable. But for the subsequent requests from the same user (after the initial Authentication is

Re: Session Handling/Set Session attributes

2007-01-17 Thread Tracy12
successfully authenticated. It should work fine and will likely solve your performance problem. Rob -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Session-Handling-Set-Session-attributes-tf3030824.html#a8421325 Sent from the mod_perl - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Session Handling/Set Session attributes

2007-01-17 Thread Tracy12
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Re: Session Handling/Set Session attributes

2007-01-17 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 14:50 -0800, Tracy12 wrote: What about the security measures if we store authenticated user information in a cookie, Cant we handle in the server session and and store it as a session variable. This would be much secure? Have you looked at the Apache::AuthCAS module on

Re: Session Handling/Set Session attributes

2007-01-17 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 16:11 -0800, Tracy12 wrote: Well does this all mean there is limited features to do session handling on mod_perl. Concepts like sessions are not built into mod_perl. They are implemented separately by modules that you can find on CPAN, like Apache::Session, which was

Re: Session Handling/Set Session attributes

2007-01-17 Thread Tracy12
to. - Perrin -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Session-Handling-Set-Session-attributes-tf3030824.html#a8422921 Sent from the mod_perl - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Session Handling/Set Session attributes

2007-01-17 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
On Jan 17, 2007, at 7:11 PM, Tracy12 wrote: Well does this all mean there is limited features to do session handling on mod_perl. Well I am new to mod_perl but in JAVA/Servlet you can do a simple thing like this request.getSession().setAttribute(my_remote_user,uid of the authenticated

Re: Session Handling/Set Session attributes

2007-01-17 Thread Tracy12
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Re: Session Handling/Set Session attributes

2007-01-17 Thread Perrin Harkins
Tracy12 wrote: Can I know how can I install the above module(CGI::Session) to my system. There is lots of good documentation about installing perl modules. You can read the perlmodinstall man page. You can pick up a good book like Intermediate Perl. There is a discussion about CPAN