On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:33:42 -0500, Scott Gifford <sgifford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Anders Melchiorsen <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > >> I want to password protect some directories by forwarding the HTTP >> authentication to a different URL. That is, rather than using LDAP or >> MySQL as a backend, I want to use a CGI script (possibly on a different >> server). >> > > You can do this with mod_perl and one of these modules: > > http://search.cpan.org/~chansen/Authen-Simple-HTTP-0.2 > http://search.cpan.org/~chansen/Authen-Simple-0.4 I was not aware of these modules, thank you for bringing them to my attention. It is nice to know that I am not alone in wanting this feature. However, Perl might not be acceptable everywhere that I want to use this, so it is a bit of an unfortunate dependency. Best regards, Anders --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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