Jonathan Vanasco wrote: > > On Apr 8, 2007, at 6:29 AM, Erik Norgaard wrote: > >> First, this might me a stupid question, but I haven't found (or >> understood) how this works. When you have multiple handlers each >> being called in different stages of the request handling, how do you >> pass information from one handler to the next? >> I am thinking of a separate authentication handler (not authorization >> as that depends on the action the user wants to do), how to I pass on >> authentication details to the response handler? > > > pnotes > http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache2/RequestUtil.html#C_pnotes_
while pnotes is a gem, keep in mind that there are official channels for communication of user data when rolling your own authentication mechanism - authentication handlers are expected to set $r->user() and $r->connection->auth_type(). furthermore, I know from experience that some folks have a difficult time understanding the phase separation, so I'll just say it for clarity's sake... you don't need to pass some special flag to the response handler saying "this user has been authenticated" or anything like that - if the user fails authentication they won't ever make it to your response handler. this might help you a bit: http://www.modperlcookbook.org/chapters/ch13.pdf especially the final two recipes, which involve rolling your own auth mechanism. HTH --Geoff
