[mod_python] Controlling authentication at run-time

That's "Just The Way It Works".  ("It" in this case, being the basic 
authentication that's implemented as part of Apache.)

There's an example in the docs 
(http://www.modpython.org/live/current/doc-html/tut-more-complicated.html) 
that has instructions on setting up your own authentication handler 
using mod_python.  If I were you, I'd start there.  You could put 
whatever you wanted in there.

-Chris


Diener, Edward wrote:

>Why would the browser hide this action from me, producing no prompt ?
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>Diener, Edward wrote:
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>>If Apache authentication is setup for files in a document directory
>>through directives in an .htaccess file, once the user has entered
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>their 
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>>user name and password and is allowed access to the file, they are no 
>>longer prompted each subsequent time as long as their session is
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>active. 
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>The server continues to require the authentication for *each* access to 
>the file. Your browser will provide it, but it will hide this action 
>from you; hence, no prompt.
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>>Is there a way to control this at run-time so that the user will be
>>prompted for their user name and password in subsequent access to the 
>>file, using mod_python ?
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>You can avoid HTTP Basic Authentication entirely, and create a function 
>that displays a login form before serving the file from a directory that
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>exists outside the document root.
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>That's just one possibility, there are plenty of other ways to approach
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