Re: mod_perl waters too deep

Tosh,
If your users are already verified or not, try using a switch statement 
based on their inputs directing them to the needed function.
If they already have cookie info use that as your switch/case redirection.

Jay Scherrer

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
> 

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