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

[Carl Johnstone]

> I could use Apache Basic Authentication, but I would prefer to hold 
> usernames passwords in a database rather than a htpasswd file.

I realise that you've been given an all-Cat solution for this however I just 
want to point out that just because you're using Basic Auth in Apache, 
doesn't mean that you have to hold the details in a htpasswd file. They've 
separated the Basic Auth at the front-end from how the details are stored at 
the back-end in Apache 2.2.

So you could use mod_auth_basic to handle the client-side, and mod_authn_dbd 
to do the DB lookup.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html

Carl