[cgiapp] designing a mixed open/protected application

[P Kishor]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Stewart Heckenberg
<stewart.heckenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Puneet,
>
>> Now, re. the authen mechanism. I tried Cees Hek’s
>> Plugin::Authentication and found it very easy to implement. However, I
>> am still thinking of rolling my own because I want to extend the
>> authentication mechanism to store extra values as user preferences,
>> and Plugin::Authentication seems to have sufficiently complicated
>> innards to dissuade me from opening it up and trying to understand it.
>> Nevertheless, I have two questions --
>
> Not to sound overly rude, but this is a case of "you're doing it
> wrong" -- Cees Hek's Auth plugin does exactly what it should:
> authentication. Check out the Session plugin for cgiapp for a way to
> pass/store user preferences within your application.

Not rude at all. On further examination, it is a really nice plugin,
with tons of flexibility. I haven't yet hit a wall with it. When I do,
I will be back with questions, but I am sure I can do a lot with it
until then.

I was thrown by its really low version number -- it surely deserves
more than version 0.13. It should really be 1.13, if anything. These
numbers may be cosmetic, but they do convey some pedigree. And, it
also got a lukewarm review from Mark Stosberg, but to me it seems like
a very nice, comprehensive and flexible plugin. Great job.


>
> Kind regards,
> Stew
>
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