On 4/18/05, DGeorgie@xxxxxxxxx <DGeorgie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks for the hint Joshua. Forgot to mention. The session management and > authentication is managed by the J2EE application. The sessions are tracked > by cookies and the proxy Apache can have access to the database. > > I will check the mod_auth_cookie module but I am also interested in the > solution with CGI scripts. Could you send me or direct me to some examples > on the internet? Nope, sorry. It is really just a matter of writing a program in any language you want that looks at the HTTP_COOKIE env variable, checks it against your database, and then either delivers the file (possibly using a subrequest by emitting a Location: header with the path to the file) or delivers a "Sorry, you are not authorized" page. I couldn't be any more specific than that without knowing a bunch of details (which I don't really want to know anyway ;-) Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx