I wrote a custom auth handler for apache using Apache2::Access. I had to use Net::SSH::Perl for authentication. It takes a while to authenticate with Net::SSH::Perl so I was hoping to authenticate just once instead of every time.

I have tried using $r->notes->set(Key=>Value) at the beginning of the PerlAthenHandler but there is no data in notes. However other pages can get the hash data after the authentication.

I also tried $r->headers_out->add(Key=Value) and there is also no data. Like above pages after authentication can access this data. Looking at the http headers after auth shows the headers_out I created during the auth stage.

What am I missing to get PerlAutenHandler to read $r->notes or $r->headers_out->get??

Snipplet of code:

sub handler {
    my $r = shift;

    my($res, $password) = $r->get_basic_auth_pw;
    return $res if $res != OK;

    my $user = $r->user;

    #EMPTY
    my $remote_user = $r->notes->get("User"); 

    #EMPTY  
    my $test = $r->headers_out->get("User");       

    if ($remote_user ne "" || $test ne ""){
        return Apache2::Const::OK;
    }

    #SSH VALIDATE (NOT ALL THE CODE HERE)
    eval {
        $ssh->login($user,$password);
    };
    if ($@){
        $r->note_basic_auth_failure;
        return Apache2::Const::AUTH_REQUIRED;
    }
    $r->err_headers_out->add('User') = $user;
    $r->notes->add("User" => $user);

    return Apache2::Const::OK;
}
1;
__END__
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