RE: Proxying access to restricted information

2004-08-12 Thread Dan Horne
Sent: Friday, 13 August 2004 6:27 a.m. To: 'Stas Bekman' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Proxying access to restricted information Thanks for your suggestion. I know nothing about mod_perl 2, and will look at the documentation today. I do have a couple of questions: 1. Is Apache 2

Re: Proxying access to restricted information

2004-08-12 Thread Stas Bekman
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 15:22, Stas Bekman wrote: Perrin Harkins wrote: However, as Aaron pointed out, mod_auth_tkt is a much better solution for your problem. It seems to be using mod_cgi to do that? No. It's a C module. You send the actual cookie from your application afte

Re: Proxying access to restricted information

2004-08-12 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 15:22, Stas Bekman wrote: > Perrin Harkins wrote: > > > However, as Aaron pointed out, mod_auth_tkt is a much better solution > > for your problem. > > It seems to be using mod_cgi to do that? No. It's a C module. You send the actual cookie from your application after the

Re: Proxying access to restricted information

2004-08-12 Thread Stas Bekman
Perrin Harkins wrote: However, as Aaron pointed out, mod_auth_tkt is a much better solution for your problem. It seems to be using mod_cgi to do that? If that's the case, then it probably can't beat modperl: mod_auth_tkt is a lightweight cookie-based authentication module for Apache 1.3.x, writ

RE: Proxying access to restricted information

2004-08-12 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 14:26, Dan Horne wrote: > 1. Is Apache 2 and mod_perl 2 stable? It has a very solid test suite and is in use in production by a growing number of people. I think it's past the point where you should be worried about stability. The major issue would just be learning the APIs

Re: Proxying access to restricted information

2004-08-12 Thread Aaron Ross
cally allow users through depending on their access rights. It's due to this authentication requirement that I can't use mod_rewrite by itself Dan -Original Message- From: Stas Bekman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 12 August 2004 5:07 p.m. To: Dan Horne Cc: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Proxying access to restricted information

2004-08-12 Thread Dan Horne
allow users through depending on their access rights. It's due to this authentication requirement that I can't use mod_rewrite by itself Dan -Original Message- From: Stas Bekman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 12 August 2004 5:07 p.m. To: Dan Horne Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: Proxying access to restricted information

2004-08-11 Thread Stas Bekman
Dan Horne wrote: Following on from this, it seems that the PerlTransHandler looked like my best bet, but it doesn’t seem to be able to alter the hostname (please correct me if there is a way to do this, as I struggled with it so far) I guess mod_rewrite allows the hostname to be altered, but I need

Re: Proxying access to restricted information

2004-08-11 Thread Dan Horne
Following on from this, it seems that the PerlTransHandler looked like my best bet, but it doesn’t seem to be able to alter the hostname (please correct me if there is a way to do this, as I struggled with it so far) I guess mod_rewrite allows the hostname to be altered, but I need to intercept th

Proxying access to restricted information

2004-08-11 Thread Dan Horne
Hi all I’m sure that this has been asked before, but I couldn’t seem to find the right terms when searching the archive. We have a website (not written in Perl or mod_perl), where we would now like to protect certain parts of the content. The business is loath to change the architecture, as there