Anthony R Fletcher wrote:
> I have a module that does authentication and authorisation. In my Apache
> configs I have:
>
>  PerlAuthenHandler Apache2::AuthX::authenticate
>  PerlAuthzHandler Apache2::AuthX::authorise
>
> I'd rather just use:
>
>  PerlAuthenHandler Apache2::AuthX
>  PerlAuthzHandler Apache2::AuthX
>
> and let the handler function Apache2::AuthX::handler() deduce what has
> to be done (i.e. authenticate or authorise).

You do end up paying a small overhead in forcing that determination at
run time in your code, but I agree it's somewhat neater.

> How can handlers tell which phase they are currently in?

ModPerl::Util::current_callback()

http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/ModPerl/Util.html#C_current_callback_

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