On Feb 18, 2005, at 9:16 AM, Geoffrey Young wrote:
Sean Davis wrote:I am using mod_perl 1.29 and apache 1.33 on macos. I have a content
handler that does its own authen and authz. I would like to log the
username. When I set the user using $r->user($username) in the content
handler, I don't see the username in my log. I thought log handlers
came after content, so why can't I see the username? (I am doing custom
logging into a database and get the username if I use basic auth in
other scripts).
hmm, I'm confused here...
if you use any form of basic auth (such as calling $r->get_basic_auth_wd)
then $r->user should be set to whatever it is the user provided via the
Authorization header.
if you are using some kind of custom auth that isn't Basic auth then your
PerlAuthenHandler is required to set $r->user (and
$r->connection->auth_type) from the auth phase. see recipe 13.7 for an
example of what I mean
http://www.modperlcookbook.org/chapters/ch13.pdf
so, then... why are you setting $r->user from the content handler and why do
you want it to be different than the user you authenticated?
Sorry. I wasn't very clear. In the handler (converted from an old CGI script), I do all of the authentication IN THE CONTENT HANDLER. In the handler, I was trying to set the user, but wasn't seeing it. It turns out I was not setting it correctly--when I do $r->connection->user($user), it works as expected....
Thanks, Sean
