I'm running a RPC::XML::Server server and i want to add some form of authentication so that only specified users can access it's methods.
I thought of creating a rpc function like this: 
sub CreateSession {
    my ($user, $password) = @_;
   
    return "Wrong user/password"
        unless my_check_function($user, $password);

    return my_new_session_id($user, $password);
}

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This would check if user/pass is ok and if so return session id string. Now to call any function user would have to attach it's session id to rpc call: 
sub foo {
    my ($session_id) = @_;

    return "Authentication error" unless session_ok($session_id);

    return 'foo';
}

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What do you think about this approach? Maybe some other suggestions? Maybe there is an existing solution to this?

In reply to RPC::XML::Server authentication by menth0l

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