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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm new to mod_python, and I'm stuck already. I'm working through the examples in the documentation, and even after careful typing (and cutting and pasting from the manual), I can't get the authentication example to work. The line:</FONT></P>
<P> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">user = req.connection.user</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Gives an attribute error ('user'). As shown in the manual, I'm calling req.get_basic_auth_pw() first, but still no joy.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">If I try/except to trap the attribute error, I avoid the 500 Server Error message, but the authentication still doesn't work.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any ideas? I'm running Windows 2000, Apache 2.0.47, Python 2.2, and mod_python 3.0.3. (My other computer is a Linux box, but this is what I've got right going right now). The mod_python is a precompiled binary.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'll be grateful for any assistance I can get. I'm trying to recreate a mod_perl module (AuthCookie) which implements a ticket-based authentication mechanism. It works well in Perl, but my group standardized on Python and we'd like to keep using Python for Apache modules, too.</FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cheers!</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">--</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">David Hancock | dhancock@arinc.com | 410-266-4384</FONT>
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