[Catalyst] Authentication for web services (slightly off topic)

[Ian Docherty]

Andrew Payne wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2008 2:30 PM, Ian Docherty <catalyst at iandocherty.com> wrote:
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>> This might seem like a stupid question, and one that probably has a
>> I could use Apache Basic Authentication, but I would prefer to hold
>> usernames passwords in
>> a database rather than a htpasswd file.
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>
> Just do
>
>     my ($username, $password) =3D $c->req->headers->authorization_basic;
>
> There's no need to have Apache handle it.
>
> I have an app with both an HTML and a REST/XML interface (under
> '/REST/'), and simply give the REST controller its own auto() sub,
> containing the above line. Works fine.
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I am slow today. What you said here has slowly percolated through my =

thick head! I could
not get it out of my mind that I had to set up Apache to request basic =

authentication for (in your
example) the '/REST/' location. Obviously I don't need to do that so =

long as the Catalyst App
is able to read the authentication data sent by the client system!

Thanks. That solves my problem I believe.
Regards
Ian
> Andrew
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