[Catalyst] 5.80005: $c->req->remote_user and apache: excluding actions from authentication

[Charlie Garrison]

Good evening,

On 10/06/09 at 10:40 AM +0200, Francesc Romà i Frigolé 
<francesc.roma+catalyst at gmail.com> wrote:

>1) static performance: serving static files directly from apache is much
>faster than through catalyst. I find it specially noticeable with big files
>like large pictures and pdfs. Some of the files should not be public. If I
>do authentication in catalyst I can't serve them directly from apache.

You might be looking for mod_auth_tkt. There is also x-sendfile 
but I don't have experience with that one.

<http://www.openfusion.com.au/labs/mod_auth_tkt/>


Charlie

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