I am eager to try out the various ideas concerning subclassing an entire CGI:App. I'm doing a "lite" version of this on my project. On our web server we have a common piece of infrastructure that limits user access depending on dir location. There is a piece of my application that I want two different sets of users to have access to. So I set up this scheme:

MyApp.pm    (off somewhere outside of the document root)


  doc-root--- --------------
             |              | 
           foo_dir        bar_dir
             |              |
           foo.cgi        foo.cgi

Code for foo.cgi:
 use MyApp;
 my $webapp = MyApp->new();
 $webapp->run();
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Each use the same MyApp.pm, but access to the foo_dir is limited to different users than bar_dir.

This approach has the advantage of using the existing login/ authentication scheme while allowing me to reuse my code across different locations.

One thing worth noting, is that I haven't taken advantage of CGI:Apps ability to pass in different parameters so that the same MyApp code could behave somewhat differently in these two instances.

good luck with your project.

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