[cgiapp] authentication stuff

[Nicholas Bamber]

Jerry,
I hate to say this, but I cannot help thinking you would benefit from 
stepping back from the problem.
Start off with a basic CGIApp, add authentication, the add the DBH 
plugin, then switch to the DBI based driver then go back to your code. 
Even if that does not reveal the problem the exercise would probably be 
useful.

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> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:59:31 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Jerry Kaidor" <jerry at tr2.com>
> Subject: Re: [cgiapp] cgiapp Digest, Vol 33, Issue 16
> To: "CGI Application" <cgiapp at lists.openlib.org>
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>> Jerry,
>>
>> Just focusing on this for a moment:
>>
>> "Error executing class callback in prerun stage: must call dbh_config()
>> before calling dbh().
>>
>> What this seems to mean is that $options{DBH} is undefined."
>>
>>
>> I assume you have had CGI::Application working with the standard DBH
>> authentication driver.
>>     
>
> *** You know, I don't remember if I tried that at all.  Right now, I'm not
> aiming at getting the whole thing working, just to get it past this
> particular error.  Basically, changes that my driver makes to the options
> array ( which it must do, for the system to work without changing your
> driver ) seem to be magically discarded when my driver calls your driver.
>
>    The crux of the matter would be - does a Perl method get a private copy
> of $self->whatever?  If so, can this behavior be changed or defeated?
>
>    There is another feature that my homegrown session support has: session
> timeout is dependant on the network of the user.  On the localnet,
> timeouts are very long - on the order of weeks.  Out on the big wild
> Internet,however, they are like a bank's - 15 minutes.
>
>    If I get tired of fighting with it, I'll take you up on your kind offer.
> But for now, I am learning useful things about perl data structures.
>
>                             - Jerry Kaidor
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