Integrating mod_perl with Apache 2.1 Authentication (O'Reilly)

[Posted July 16, 2003 by cook]

Geoffrey Young covers issues on Apache authentication with Perl. "Furthermore, even though the standard Apache distribution came with modules to support both Basic and Digest authentication, Apache (and thus mod_perl) only offered an API for interacting with Basic authentication. If you wanted to use Digest authentication, flat files were the only password storage medium available. With both of these restrictions, it seemed impractical to deploy Digest authentication in all but the most limited circumstances."

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