Re: $r->requires and register_auth_provider

Hi.

I don't have anything very precise to tell you, but here is what I know :
The AAA part has been significantly changed in Apache httpd 2.4, as compared to 2.2.
Therefore I suspect - but I am not sure - that some corresponding changes had to be made 
in mod_perl, to adapt to these changes.
One of the changes that I see when looking at the Apache 2.4 vs 2.2 on-line documentation 
(for Apache, not for mod_perl), concerns the syntax - and who handles - the "Require" 
directives.

I also believe that the on-line mod_perl documentation does not yet reflect these changes, 
and it seems a bit hard to find an up-to-date documentation yet.

But anyway, I just found this on CPAN :
https://metacpan.org/source/MSCHOUT/Apache-AuthCookie-3.23/lib/Apache2_4/AuthCookie.pm

That - along with the module name - seems to show a way to obtain the "Require" that you 
need.  Why don't you give it a try ?

Another way that I can think of, would be to use the Apache2::Directive module 
(http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache2/Directive.html), to obtain the Require via 
the server's configuration tree.
That should be independent of the specific Apache version being used.


On 20.12.2015 03:35, Sergei Gerasenko wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I’m using mod_perl-2.0.8-10 and I’ve been googling for days for this info w/o any luck.
>
> I need to access the value for the Require directive in the apache configs. I need to access that info in my authorization handler (PerlAuthzHandler). It used to be that $r->requires provided that information, but it’s gone now according to the changelog. It has been replaced with register_auth_provider and according to this:
>
> perl -MModPerl::MethodLookup -e print_method register_auth_provider
> To use method 'register_auth_provider' add:
>          use Apache2::RequestUtil ();
>
> … it should be in Apache2::RequestUtil. But I can’t find anything about that method in the description of Apache2::RequestUtil. Further, I get “undefined method” when I try to even mention it in my handler.
>
> I must be missing something really simple? Can somebody point me to a full example of using that method?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sergei
>