[cgiapp] Incompatibility between CAP::Authentication and CAP::ActionDispatch

Nicholas Bamber nicholas at periapt.co.uk
Wed Jun 2 11:58:39 EDT 2010


Some apologies to Jason Yates. He seems to have uploaded a new version 
of ActionDispatch about 30 minutes before I uploaded a new version of 
Authentication. I shall look with interest at whatever he has done.

Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> There is a long standing bug report (39772 
> <https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39772>) about 
> incompatibility between these two modules. Christian Walde recently 
> contacted me via github over the same issue. I can reproduce the 
> issue, and I have a test script to cover the case. So I will apply 
> Christian's suggested changes at least to the developer release.
>
> However the more I look at it the more annoyed I am by ActionDispatch.
>
> 1.) There is some sloppy code in ActionDispatch that is documented in 
> 41345 <https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41345>.
> 2.) Some of the code is handled in the init callback and some in the 
> prerun callback. If it was all handled in the init callback then there 
> would be no need to change the Authentication module.
> 3.) ActionDispatch does not seem to have been changed in two years. 
> Does that make it mature or orphaned?
> 4.) AutoRunmode offers similar functionality but does not seem to have 
> the same problem.
>



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