Re: [users@httpd] HTTP authentication using HTTP

2011-01-13 Thread Anders Melchiorsen
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:33:42 -0500, Scott Gifford : > Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Anders Melchiorsen >> I want to password protect some directories by forwarding the HTTP >> authentication to a different URL. That is, rather than using LDAP or >> MySQL as a backend, I want to use a CGI script (

Re: [users@httpd] HTTP authentication using HTTP

2011-01-11 Thread Scott Gifford
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Anders Melchiorsen wrote: > Hi. > > I want to password protect some directories by forwarding the HTTP > authentication to a different URL. That is, rather than using LDAP or MySQL > as a backend, I want to use a CGI script (possibly on a different server). > You

Re: [users@httpd] HTTP authentication using HTTP

2011-01-11 Thread Igor Galić
- "Devraj Mukherjee" wrote: > Hi Anders, > > Depending on what the directories contains (eg. your app) I would > nearly be tempted to using OAuth or one of the open authentication > protocols. +1 on that. I've been thinking of doing this kind of thing using things like: http://httpd.apach

Re: [users@httpd] HTTP authentication using HTTP

2011-01-11 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Hi Anders, Depending on what the directories contains (eg. your app) I would nearly be tempted to using OAuth or one of the open authentication protocols. I realise that its not the same as Basic authentication where the authenticated session is generated by another server. Just my two cents wor

[users@httpd] HTTP authentication using HTTP

2011-01-11 Thread Anders Melchiorsen
Hi. I want to password protect some directories by forwarding the HTTP authentication to a different URL. That is, rather than using LDAP or MySQL as a backend, I want to use a CGI script (possibly on a different server). Searching high and low has not helped me -- "http authentication" mostly tu