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Re: Authentication
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On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:
> > Negative mucacho. Neither Perl nor PHP support HTTP auth. HTTP auth
> > occurs *BEFORE* the CGI gets executed. Only modules support http auth.
>
> Well... PHP *is* a module...
Let me re-phrase that. Only modules can supporrt http auth. The PHP
module would have to have a hook into Apache to support that. Apache has
something like 14 steps to process a request. One of those is
authorization, which occurs *before* the page is read by Apache. Hence,
you can't do the http auth using PHP code inside the page.
> If we can overcome the issues of doing http auth from MySQL then I'm OK
> with it. I don't want to run yet another DB and introduce that and it's
> overhead...
I'll look into it more.
> I don't think http auth would change our model too much (article
> commenting, etc.)
I agree. The best way to find this out though is to do a web page flow
chart showing the different paths people can take. It will also help us
decide on the directory structure of the site.
Oh, btw, I haven't heard yet from Chris DiBona re: Slashdot and MySQL and
the memory leak. The good news is that I should get the change to ask Rob
Malda in person tonight. Slashdot say's he'll be at a cafe walking
distance from my apartment starting at 7 tonight.
Later...
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