[cgiapp] How do I implement this pattern: Resume interrupted POST after login

[Clayton Scott]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Michael Peters <mpeters at plusthree.com>wrote:

> Clayton Scott wrote:
>
>  I went as far as freezing the query and stuffing it into the session.
>> Short
>> of using LWP
>> to rerun the POST what are my options?
>>
>
> That's actually a pretty good option. You can't just pass the extra POST
> params to the authentication request since they might mess it up (think of
> having a "New User" form where you fill out a new user's username, then that
> get's passed to the authentication program and fails...) also since you're
> using some other 3rd party for authentication there's no guarantee that
> they'll pass those extra params back to you.
>
> So you need to serialize and store the params (you could use Storable and a
> session for this) and then when redirected back check if there's something
> stored to replay, and if there is then do it. You don't necessarily need to
> use LWP. If you're using mod_perl you could do a subrequest, or if just
> plain C::A you could figure out what module you're going to run and just
> call it's run() directly after setting up a CGI.pm object with your thawed
> POST params.
>


Thanks for the confirmation that I wasn't totally barking up the wrong tree.
I'll run with those two ideas and see where I get.


Clayton
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Clayton Scott
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