[Catalyst] Login via IP address?

[Matt S Trout]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 10:20:27AM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> 
> I have a Cat app with the usual Session and Authentication
> stuff running, though I'm using my own Authz stuff instead of
> any of the built-in Roles tools. It's a typical setup with
> regular users who can just view things, some users with
> add/edit privs, and superusers who can create new users etc.
> 
> In a previous, non-Cat version of this app I had a function so
> that people using the app from the main company location would
> automatically be logged in as a generic "regular" user, and
> only if they tried to do any adding/editing would get
> redirected to a login page. I forgot about this and didn't
> build it into the Cat version, and now I've learned that the
> reason people continue to use the clunky old version instead
> of my shiny fast featureful Cat app is that they're too lazy
> to log in, so I'd like to add this.
> 
> The way it looked, more or less, in the old one was:
> 
>   if ( !defined( $self->login_user() ) ) {
>     if ( $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} =~ m/hairyIPaddressRegEx/ ) {
>        $self->login("generic");
>        $self->redirect( $self->{target_uri} );

unless ( $c->user_exists ) {
  if ( $c->req->address ... )

    $c->set_authenticated(...)


>     } else {
>       # redirect to login page
>     }
>   }
> 
> What's the Right Way to do this in Cat?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jesse, still not programming much lately
> 
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