In the fairly near future, my workplace will begin hosting its own web site (nothing mission critical, and we have a half T1 with practically unused upstream), and I, as the resident web programmer, have pretty much total control over everything. How nice is that? I've written a couple of applications using PHP, mainly due to the restrictiveness of our host, but most/all future projects are going to be in Perl. The one I'm planning right now will make use of the following: I'm thinking I'm 90% done with my entire app already. :-) The only issue (hah! the only issue I foresee at the moment, perhaps) is how to handle user authentication. I rolled my own in PHP, and it wouldn't be a huge deal to do the same thing in Perl, but I would prefer to do it at the webserver level. I've looked at Apache::AuthCookie and Apache::AuthCookieURL, but I haven't found a good example of how to tie these in with everything I listed above (esp. with Apache::Session - do they use the same session keys? different? which gets set first? etc.). Can anyone point me in the right direction?

In reply to Webserver level authentication? by jgallagher

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