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Re: [PLUG] Mercurial + Apache authentication + PHP/Perl/SOAP -- A little help?
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If I'm reading this right, then you should probably check out
http://code.google.com/p/mod-auth-external/
With that, it should be a simple matter of doing a little SOAP::Lite
work to get it all set up.
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> I've got a bit of a quandary on my hands and I'd sure love some help.
>
> I have a client that wants to obscure some Mercurial repos behind an
> authentication front-end, allowing for read-only or read-write
> permissions for folks who have the proper credentials. They also have
> a 3rd party app that very conveniently allows for user auths and
> logins via a SOAP interface. Since most of the affected parties have
> accounts on the 3rd party app, it makes user account management a snap
> and reduces passwords-to-remember-count by one for all concerned.
>
> However, disturbingly, I'm unable to find a mod_auth_soap for Apache
> (sarcasm! [unless there really is one, then: link, please!]) and thus
> must rely upon my PHP or Perl skills to handle the authentication.
>
> Ideally, there would be some mod_auth_* that would allow me to call
> out to an arbitrary script for user verification, at which point I
> could whip up a quick script that would let me talk to the SOAP
> interface, handle all the login mess and then hand Apache a
> valid-user. Short of that, though, I'm terribly afraid that I'm going
> to have to write a wrapper script that will essentially talk to
> Mercurial's hgweb/hgwebdir.cgi and, well, that strikes me as
> over-the-top complicated for what I want to do.
>
> So: anyone have any experience doing something along these lines? Nice
> Google searches that'd find me the info I need? (Polite) Shoves in the
> right informational direction?
>
> Much obliged.
>
> --
> -Doug
> @zamoose
> http://literalbarrage.org/blog/
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