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NAME

Apache::AuthenURL - authenticates via another URL

SYNOPSIS

 #in .htaccess
 AuthName MyHTTPAuth
 AuthType Basic
 PerlAuthenHandler Apache::AuthenCache Apache::AuthenURL::handler Apache::AuthenCache::manage_cache

 PerlSetVar AuthenURL_method HEAD               # a valid LWP method
 PerlSetVar AuthenURL_url https://somehost
 PerlSetVar AuthenURL_proxy http://someproxy:port
 PerlSetVar AuthenCache_cache_time      

 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
  
 require valid-user

DESCRIPTION

I wrote this module to work around the lack of DCE support for Solaris x86. DCE authentication in my application is handled using Gradient's DCE plug-in for Netscape Enterprise Server. The request is encrypted using SSL.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The cache code was heavily borrowed from Apache::AuthenDBI by Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de>, but now has been stripped out in favor of the more general solution in Apache::AuthenCache by Jason Bodnar <jason@shakabuku.org>.

SEE ALSO

mod_perl(1), Apache::AuthenCache(3), LWP(3)

AUTHOR

John Groenveld <groenveld@acm.org>

COPYRIGHT

This package is Copyright (C) 1998 by John Groenveld. It may be copied, used and redistributed under the same terms as perl itself.