I've been working to get a handle on CGI::Builder and / or CGI::Application as a framework for my future development projects. I've also been looking at DBIx::UserDB for handling Authentication, Authorization and Access control functions. Has anyone done any work to integrate these tools, either as a new extension to one of the above mentioned frameworks, or simply by using them together? I would appreciate some advise and direction on how best to proceed. I'm more interested in producing workable code than in re-inventing wheels.

Thansk,
-- Hugh

UPDATE

I had been frustrated by CGI::Builder when I found nothing more evolved than reliance on apache's htpasswd files.

Thanks to Steve Kirkup's post below, I went back again to look at the CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication and CGI::Application::Plugin::Authorization modules. It showed how to deal with encrypted tokens.

I'm now imagining using CGI::App with these tools for authenticating and authorizing resources, and using it as a front end to DBIx::UserDB for managing the user and group and access control back end.

-- Hugh

In reply to CGI::Builder & DBIx::UserDB together? by hesco

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