Re: mod_perl waters too deep

This is one of my options, but it's down at the bottom of my desired 
outcomes.  The CGI::Session modules have been getting a lot of reading 
lately ;)

Thanks Jay!

Tosh


Jay Scherrer wrote:
> 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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