Re: http authentication

I had the same problem, move the r.auth_name and r.auth_type  before the 
if statement

John Long wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've been working on an authentication handler for our web site. I can't get
>the following code to run:
>
>% cat handler.rb
>module Site
>    def Site.authenticate(r)
>        if r.get_basic_auth_pw.nil?
>            r.auth_name = 'Protected Area'
>            r.auth_type = 'basic'
>            r.note_auth_failure
>            return(Apache::DONE)
>        end
>
>        unless (user == 'jlong') and (password == 'blue74')
>            return(Apache::AUTH_REQUIRED)
>        else
>            return(Apache::OK)
>        end
>    end
>end
>
>% cat .htaccess
>RubyRequire '/path/to/handler.rb'
>Require valid-user
>RubyAuthenHandler
>
>Apache spits out the following error:
>% tail -f /apache/error_log
>. . .
>[Thu Dec 11 14:20:55 2003] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] configuration error:
>couldn't perform authentication. AuthType not set! /~jlong/secure
>. . .
>
>My handler is nearly a direct copy of the authentication handler found in
>the documentation ( http://www.rubydoc.org/books/modruby/x711.htm#AEN736 )
>only I removed the DB related code.
>
>When I move the r.auth_type and r.auth_name setters above the if statement
>it works fine. Is this an error in the documentation or am I missing
>something?
>
>I'm running Apache/2.0.48, mod_ruby/1.0.7, and Ruby/1.8.0.
>
>--
>John Long
>
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