Re: The objects...

[Jason Pincin <chardros@linuxkb.org>]

Yeah - Keeping mod_perl for searching for now is fine by me.  The
search.pm isn't hitting the DB via mod_perl.... thus not affecting memory
usage on vodka.

On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 12:29:26PM -0800, Aaron Turner wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:
> 
> > Well - we still want to look into replacing mod_perl with PHP
> > authentication - I think this discussion thread is a good place to
> > discuiss that.  Anyone have any thoughts on the matter?  If we decide on
> 
> The other thing is my Search.pm interface to ht://dig.  We'll have to
> re-write that in PHP.  The other option is to have a set of dedicated
> mod_perl httpd process which only run search.pm.  We'd only need as many
> mod_perl httpd's running as simultaneous searches going on (5-10 should be
> enough).  This would be an excellent short term solution.
> 
> > crypt (which I think is fine... but md5() would be cool too, and that
> > would not limit password sizes as strictly right?
> 
> I don't see any reason to use MD5.  Do you really think people are going
> to use passwords larger than 8 characters?  Let's face it, we're not
> trying to secure nuclear launch codes here.
> 
> > Anyway - can we develop php authentication if we go this route? I haven't
> > looked into it yet - I'm wondering if anyone else has previous experience
> > in this arena.
> 
> This is going to have to be very optimized.  Each and every request will
> go through this code.
> 
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Jason
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