Re: [Cppcms-users] Integrated FastCGI module

[Lee E. <lee...@gm...>]

if what you need is to authorize static files - just serve them all through
the CppCMS app to the client
then the cppcms can use headers to serve the files back from the lighty or
return unauthorize response if you need to deny it


On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Sab <rim...@gm...> wrote:

> True. Simply adding FCGI_AUTHORIZER in fastcgi_api.cpp line 440) worked
> out fine. I get the request and can deny it by returning 401. That's cool.
>
> BUT!
>
> I just can't digest the fact that there is no info about the url in this
> authorize request message! The  CONTENT_LENGTH, PATH_INFO, PATH_TRANSLATED,
> and SCRIPT_NAME are in fact empty. How stupid is that!?!? You were right:
> this authorizer feature of FastCGI is absolutely useless without knowing
> what the user actually tries to access!
>
> I think I will just use a responder and implement the authorizer myself
> before processing the request. I wanted to keep the authorization separated
> from the processing but that will not work out.
>
> Thanks so much for your hints.
>
> Sab
>
>
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