[TriLUG] mod_auth_somethingorother

Owen Berry oberry at trilug.org
Thu Jul 14 09:32:32 EDT 2005


Are you maybe thinking of Apache::AuthCookieDBI? This is a Perl module.

-- Owen

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:06:31AM -0400, Brian Henning wrote:
> Hi List,
>   From a previous employment, I recall an apache module (I think) 
> called mod_auth_pl, or mod_auth_perl, or some such.  I also remember the 
> website I was working on for that job having a login widget on the page 
> that took the place of the default browser pop-up authentication dialog, 
> but still managed (iirc) to interact with the apache authentication 
> model (i.e. I don't remember there being any fancy footwork other than 
> .htaccess files to control access, still used Basic auth, but used the 
> page's widget instead of the browser's pop-up).
> 
> I really want to do that for some web pages here.  Have a default login 
> page, instead of having the browser pop up the auth dialog.  Am I 
> remembering poorly, or is that easy to do?  I still want my PHP scripts 
> to be able to use things like $_SERVER["REMOTE_USER"] and such.
> 
> Thanks for the advice, folks!
> 
> ~Brian



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