Re: [users@httpd] CGI wont read STDIN/POST

[Terence Burnard <terenceburnard@xxxxxxx>]

> On 9/27/05, Terence Burnard <terenceburnard@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been working for a while trying to get Nagios working with
> > apache.  This is the .htaccess configuration for the directory that the
> > cgis are in:
> >
> > AuthName "Nagios Access"
> > AuthType Basic
> > #AuthScriptURI "/htlogin/ldap.php?filter=nagios"
> > require valid-user
> > AuthUserFile /home/nagios/nagios.users
> >
> > Now if you notice, the AuthScriptURI is commented out. This is the the
> > configuration that works.
> >
> > If I uncomment AuthScriptURI and comment out AuthUserFile, my browser
> > locks up on this line in the cgi:
> >      if(!fread(cgiinput,content_length,1,stdin)){
> > The cgi can retrieve CONTENT_LENGTH and CONTENT_TYPE from the environment.
> >
> >
> > Now the question I have is:
> >
> > What configuration would prevent the cgi script from reading the POST
> > variables on STDIN when the script works fine with AuthUserFile but
> > hangs on a 'fread' with AuthScriptURI?
> >
> > The ldap.php script works properly on GET requests, but as mentioned
> > hangs on POST.
>
>
> I had to google to figure out what the heck AuthScriptURI is.  It
> belongs to mod_auth_script, which I have never seen before.
>
> I think your solution is going to be to use a different auth module. 
> There are apache modules that allow you to auth directly against ldap
> rather than going through a php script.
>
> If I had to guess what was happening, I would say that php is sucking
> up the post contents, because it does not know that it is being called
> as an auth handler and not as a content handler.  I doubt that is
> fixable.
>
> Joshua.


Thanks for the lead, it helped me fix the problem.  It turned out to be 
mod_auth_script(1.03), all I did was upgrade it to 1.10 and everything 
is working great.

Terence

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