Re: [Webware-discuss] Extending mod_webkit...

[Terrel S. <tsh...@zi...>]

Ian Bicking wrote:

> I'm just curious if anyone has thought about extending mod_webkit, so 
> that instead of just intercepting Apache's content delivery, it could 
> also intercept smaller portions of the request.  In particular, I'd 
> find it interesting to provide an authentication handler that used 
> mod_webkit to communicate to the AppServer -- the AppServer wouldn't 
> serve the content, but would only authenticate the user.  This way you 
> could, say, use your WebKit-based authentication system with a PHP 
> script, or with static files, or whatever.
>
mod_python already does all of that. And you probably
don't need all of WebKit loaded to do authentication.

In a system I plan to implement, I will have one
python-based authentication daemon run for all
services: web sign-on, webmail, imap/pop/smtp, etc.
The clients just use one light-weight vpopmail-like
protocol and don't need to care about how the data
is stored.

Whatever few extra CPU cycles you lose to mod_python
are a small price to pay for the many human cycles
you save by not mucking around in C.

-- Terrel
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