[cgiapp] Problem understanding using CAP::Authentication

[Gurunandan R. Bhat]

Sorry Folks.  

My Mistake: Not calling CGI::Session->name('myname') after passing a
non-default name in the COOKIE_PARAMS.

Fixed now. Must have been the Turkey :)
Apologies for disturbing your holidays!!




On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 01:49 +0530, Gurunandan R. Bhat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     I have used CAP::Authentication in many projects with success and
> had no problems understanding how it worked. Or so I thought, until...
> 
>     In every case that I have used it so far, all run-modes were
> protected. I would just add: $app->authen->protected_runmodes(':all');
> and everything would work like a charm.
> 
>     Recently I had to use it in a situation where some runmodes in a
> single Controller class were protected and some not. In such a situation
> everything goes haywire. Making all modes protected restores expected
> behavior. Here is what I mix protected and unprotected modes in a single
> Class:
> 
> 1. If I visit an unprotected run-mode, it displays the correct content
> 
> 2. If I visit a protected runmode, it correctly takes me to the login
> page generated by the "login" runmode. The login runmode is just a
> simple mode that creates a login form.
> 
> 3. However if I submit this form with the correct username and password,
> it just throws the form back to me. I have printed out the values of
> $app->authen->is_authenticated and it is blank. 
> 
> 4. If I make all runmodes protected again, everything works as expected.
> 
> I have checked that I am getting the same behaviour even when I use the
> default form (and not my "login" runmode), so it cannot be an error in
> naming form variables. 
> 
> Can some one help please.
> 
> Yours,
> Cross-eyed from repeatedly reading the same code again and again
> 
> 
> 
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