Re: $r->requires and register_auth_provider

Hi Sergei.
My turn to thank you for providing the information below (and also to Michael Schout of 
course). That will also be invaluable to me, when I get around to update my own mod_perl 
AAA modules.

On 22.12.2015 17:57, Sergei Gerasenko wrote:
> Yep, I can see what I should do now. For the benefit of others here are the differences:
>
> OLD STYLE
> =========
>
> <Location blah>
>      PerlAuthzHandler YOUR_MODULE->YOUR_METHOD
>      require user fred
>      require group fred
> </Location>```
>
>
> Then in your YOUR_METHOD you would do something like:
>
> my $requires = $r->requires
> process your requires ..
>
>
> ​NEW STYLE:
> ​==========​
>
> PerlAddAuthzProvider user YOUR_MODULE->YOUR_USER_AUTHZ_METHOD
> PerlAddAuthzProvider group YOUR_MODULE->YOUR_GROUP_AUTHZ_METHOD
>
> <Location blah>
>     require user fred
>     required group fred
> </Location>```
>
>
> And in your YOUR_MODULE:
>
> sub YOUR_USER_AUTHZ_METHOD {
>     my ($self, $r, @requires) = @_;
> }
>
> sub YOUR_GROUP_AUTHZ_METHOD {
>     my ($self, $r, @requires) = @_;
> }
>
> Thanks, André for helping me finally solve this problem. From your link on
> Apache-AuthCookie, I also found this:
> ​ ​
> http://search.cpan.org/~mschout/Apache-AuthCookie-3.23/README.apache-2.4.pod and in there
> I read under APACHE 2.4 PORTING NOTES.
>
>
> ​Thanks again,​
> ​   ​
> Sergei
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 2:19 AM, André Warnier <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     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 <tel:20.12.2015%2003>: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
>
>
>