Re: mod_perl waters too deep

Hi Tosh,

Have you considered using a Web framework like Catalyst? I haven't used 
Catalyst, but a cursory read of your problems makes me think that a Web 
framework may have already solved most of your problems.

Take care,

Kurt Hansen
[email protected]

Tosh Cooey wrote:
> You may have seen my other recent questions to the list this month, 
> the gist of which is:
>
> I want to setup an application for multiple clients, each of whom have 
> their own users.
>
> http://www.site.com/clientA/application.pl
> http://www.site.com/clientB/application.pl
> http://www.site.com/clientX/application.pl
>
> So the users of "clientA" log in to 
> http://www.site.com/clientA/application.pl and are authenticated with 
> Apache2::AuthCookieDBI
>
> Now the directories clientA, clientB, etc. do not exist, I'm using 
> mod_rewrite to sort that out, and here starts my problems.  First I'm 
> lost with authenticating since there's no "real" resource to 
> authenticate against, but I seem to have solved that by forcing 
> authentication against all *.pl files which luckily do exist ;)
>
> It gets more complicated later because some URLs like
> http://www.site.com/clientA/iCal can't use session cookies but have to 
> use BASIC AUTH, and other *.pl files can't have any authentication 
> applied against them.
>
> I thought I could solve this by writing a MyAuthCookieDBI.pm but this 
> also isn't working out.  For example MyAuthCookieDBI is an 
> almost-empty child.  The parent (Apache2::AuthCookieDBI) has a 
> function _dbi_connect() which manages all the database connecting, but 
> I can't overwrite that function, even if MyAuthCookieDBI is the 
> calling object the function from Apache2::AuthCookieDBI always gets 
> called rather than the overridden function in my object.
>
> That's kind of the tip of things, basically I'm realizing that I need 
> professional help with this task before I end up requiring 
> professional help for my nerves!
>
> So if anyone can help with this then please contact me offlist with 
> terms.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tosh
>