Re: SOAP authentication in 3.2

As far as I know, there is no-one working on this, you are welcome to add 
it if you want. :-)

Many things have changed since 3.0. One of the better thing is the more 
structured approach to authentication and authorization, most of which is 
now handled via the SECURITY tag and the Survey::Authentication module. 
Personally I'd think it is easier to write new code within the frame of 
the new module than trying to fit the 3.0 code into the 3.2 one.

Concerning the effort, I don't think adding any new authentication scheme 
is much trouble right now. The main issues would be how the syntax should 
look for the user, and a discussion about possible external dependencies 
and about security.

If you feel like working with this, you should probably take a look at the 
latest CVS code, because there have been some authentication-related 
additions lately (mainly for authenticating against a database rather than 
htaccess files). You might also want to subscribe to the developer list.

For example, see the sub Survey::Authentication->IsValidUser(). Currently 
there are two if() statements checking if authentication is file or dbi. 
Adding another one for soap would fit rather well here.

   // Joel


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Jay Houghton wrote:

> I'm looking into using the SOAP authentication that was present in the 3.0 
> version of mod_survey. But I'd like to stay with the 3.2 branch; so that 
> means forward porting the authentication into the current release.
>
> Are there any others that need this? Anyone though of porting this back into 
> the new version? How much effort would it be? (i know Perl pretty well...)
>
> thanks!
>
> -- 
> Jay Houghton
> Systems Software Architect
> ITS Network Group
> Brandeis University
> 781-736-4634
> [email protected]
>
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