Hi modperl list
First of all, I am so excited to have discovered mod_perl. I have been writing modules in C for a while now, and have been porting an old module that used to work under Apache 1.2 to work on Apache 1.3 and am having trouble for various reasons. I picked up mod_perl and in less time than porting an old (already had been in production) module to a new environment, I have almost completely re-written the module in perl. Oh why didn't I do this sooner ;-)
My real question is this: I am writing an authentication / authorization module. For various reasons, the authenticatoin portion determines various things about the user in order to provide succesfull authentication. This information can then be used later, in the authorization module. I would like to cache this information somehow so that the authorization handler doesn't need to perform these operations over. I am already using IPC::Shareable in the authentication handler and would prefer to not use that mechanism. Is there a way to have the data persist across the authenticate/authorize parts of the module?
If you are just trying to have data that you set in the authentication be seen in the authorization phase you could just use $r->pnotes().
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/api/Apache.html#_r_E_gt_pnotes___key____value___
-- Michael Peters Developer Plus Three, LP
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