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Marcus Werner
travis at uni-paderborn.de
Thu Dec 21 16:37:18 EST 2006
Hi everyone, I'm working on a Debian-Stable Box with mod_python 2.7.10 and Python 2.3 (yes I know its both 'stale', but I've got no choice) and I would like to know _how_ I can protect an images-directory with an PythonAccessHandler together with my application-/session-based authentification. A bonus would be If I could decide access to specific images bases on user-permissions. I know this is a tricky problem, and in PHP you would have to place the images somewhere inaccessible from the web and stream them through php to the client, after checking the credentials. If we assume mod_php is tuned to serve this fast the performance should be fair, but there is still a small performance-loss because the image is streamed through the PHP-Interpreter. Now mod_python seems to dodge this elegantly by introducing the AccessHandler, but so far I haven't been able to produce something like this, since the documentation regarding those special Handler is really sparse. If you want to attract more user you really need some examples regarding things wich are impossible, difficult or perfomance-costly in other languages/frameworks. Especially for those Python*Handlers, you need _way_more_ examples, so it's obvious why,where and when to use those Handlers. They are a huge bonus, but regarding the documentation they haven't received the attention they deserve. I'm going to hold a 30-minutes presentation on mod_python 3 Weeks from now during a seminar about scripting-languages for Web-Engineering and I would like to show at least _one_ convincing example why and where to use those _special_ handlers. So far I don't know what to tell my fellow students about thist part of mod_python. Afaik it seems like I'm the first guy ever doing a presentation about mod_python. I'm going to set up a more recent version of mod_python on a private box tonight so if you have a solution/small example wich works on a more recent version of mod_python: fire away. Merry christmasa and best regards, -- Marcus Werner <travis at uni-paderborn.de> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mm_cfg_has_not_been_edited_to_set_host_domains/pipermail/mod_python/attachments/20061221/2f597520/signature.bin
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