On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Dan Axtell wrote:
> server on the back end. It seems like a lot of overhead to have mod_perl on
> the front end purely for authentication; I might as well keep the monolithic
> configuration I have now. Thanks for the input, though, it helps clarify
> things.
It
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Dan Axtell wrote:
> What I don't understand is what to do about static directories that want to
> use the handlers via Directory directive, or via a local .htdocs file. Does
> any such directory need to be forwarded to the dynamic server in order to then
> call th
>
> It would be more logical to do the authentication on the front-end
> server. Then, if the back-end server needs the result of the
> authentication, you could add an appropriate HTTP header (with the
> user-id and maybe more stuff) to the request, before proxying it to the
> back-end.
> The idea
