First, I don't know what you mean by a "Nodes" model. Are you talking about vanilla CGI? If so, what's all this about requiring a database and inheritance in Postgres?

It looks to me like you are confusing the sort of state machine support that CGI::Application gives with application-wide authentication and user tracking. That stuff is typically done through the use of some session tracking mechanism (like Apache::Session or similar), and you will need all requests to be processed by a particular piece of code to make it happen.

mod_perl provides hooks to add your own modules in at the auth and access stages of Apache, but you can do this anywhere. If you use CGI::Application, you can do it in the cgiapp_init() method. Just write some shared module that loads the current session and checks the user's authorization to view this page, and call this module from cgiapp_init(). You could do the same from vanilla CGI.

You could also use a framework like OpenInteract which already has the user tracking and auth stuff built in.

In reply to Re: CGI: Nodes vs State Machine by perrin
in thread CGI: Nodes vs State Machine by Masem

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