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Replacement for Apache::AuthDBI but not mod_authn_dbd

Tosh Cooey

2009-12-06

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If you saw my last post I described my solution for the following problem:

Right now I have an application set up for multiple clients: clientA,
clientB, clientC.

Each client has their own users.

The way I have it setup is clientA goes to http://www.site.com/clientA
and is presented with a login screen which is triggered by an .htaccess
file in a directory called /clientA. The .htaccess file directs Apache
to perform DBI-based authentication using Apache2::AuthCookieDBI.

The solution was to subclass Apache2::AuthCookieDBI (MyAuth.pm) to have
it dynamically set the $database variable on each request depending on
the client.

This works great, but now MyAuth.pm needs to be a bit more complicated
to be able to handle BASIC Authentication as well, for example in this
scenario:

http://www.site.com/clientA/calendar
http://www.site.com/clientA/calendar/ical

The first link is handled by a login screen and cookies. The second
would allow programs like iCal to subscribe to a calendar and so needs
to be handled via BASIC Authentication. My initial thought was that
this would be easy, I would just do the following:

package MyAuth;

if ($var eq 'iCal') {
 use base "Apache::AuthDBI";
 ... do some other stuff...
} else {
 use base "Apache2::AuthCookieDBI";
 ... do some other stuff...
}


But if I'm not mistaken Apache::AuthDBI is a mp1 module not mp2 because
all it's functionality is managed by mod_authn_dbd and also it's for
Apache 1.3 which is great but doesn't help me in my above scenario.

Anyone have any suggestions for a Apache::AuthDBI replacement? Or
perhaps a different way to accomplish what I want?

Thanks!

Tosh
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