Re: [users@httpd] HTTP authentication using HTTP

2011-01-13 Thread Anders Melchiorsen
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:33:42 -0500, Scott Gifford : > Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Anders Melchiorsen >> I want to password protect some directories by forwarding the HTTP >> authentication to a different URL. That is, rather than using LDAP or >> MySQL as a backend, I wan

Re: [us...@httpd] HTTP authentication using HTTP

2011-01-11 Thread Anders Melchiorsen
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:20:11 + (UTC), Igor Galić wrote: > - "Devraj Mukherjee" wrote: >> Depending on what the directories contains (eg. your app) I would >> nearly be tempted to using OAuth or one of the open authentication >> protocols. > > +1 on that. I want an easy way to password

[users@httpd] HTTP authentication using HTTP

2011-01-11 Thread Anders Melchiorsen
Hi. I want to password protect some directories by forwarding the HTTP authentication to a different URL. That is, rather than using LDAP or MySQL as a backend, I want to use a CGI script (possibly on a different server). Searching high and low has not helped me -- "http authentication" mostly tu