11-14-2008
Hey! Apache allows you to authenticate with an LDAP backend.
mod_authnz_ldap - Apache HTTP Server
And you don't need an explicit user specified at all. If you need to, "Require valid-user" will match any users defined in the configuration. Also check that page for information about this and some examples. It seems to me a rather flexible one that the module does not mandate a specific LDAP schema.
If you insist you need to do it the Perl way, or you think you can't live with this method, you'll be required to deploy your Web application on mod_perl instead of Perl CGI because someone at other sites said Apache would not pass the password to the CGI process. I haven't verified this claim so I can't confirm. Upon HTTP authentication, the username+password will always be available in the HTTP header (that's why it works for Apache), but Apache may filter some of them before making them available to the CGI process (as HTTP_* envvars). But it seems that Apache *will* pass the username, that your CGI process can use that retrieved via an envvar to implement your business logic.
Or you deploy it on your own perl-based Web server daemon without Apache. Of course, I don't think it is too practical although theoretically you can do that. It's just the same line of thought as you can write a new OS from scratch but no one will casually do that.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
cgi::compile
CGI::Compile(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation CGI::Compile(3pm)
NAME
CGI::Compile - Compile .cgi scripts to a code reference like ModPerl::Registry
SYNOPSIS
use CGI::Compile;
my $sub = CGI::Compile->compile("/path/to/script.cgi");
DESCRIPTION
CGI::Compile is an utility to compile CGI scripts into a code reference that can run many times on its own namespace, as long as the script
is ready to run on a persistent environment.
NOTE: for best results, load CGI::Compile before any modules used by your CGIs.
RUN ON PSGI
Combined with CGI::Emulate::PSGI, your CGI script can be turned into a persistent PSGI application like:
use CGI::Emulate::PSGI;
use CGI::Compile;
my $cgi_script = "/path/to/foo.cgi";
my $sub = CGI::Compile->compile($cgi_script);
my $app = CGI::Emulate::PSGI->handler($sub);
# $app is a PSGI application
CAVEATS
If your CGI script has a subroutine that references the lexical scope variable outside the subroutine, you'll see warnings such as:
Variable "$q" is not available at ...
Variable "$counter" will not stay shared at ...
This is due to the way this module compiles the whole script into a big "sub". To solve this, you have to update your code to pass around
the lexical variables, or replace "my" with "our". See also <http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/porting.html#The_First_Mystery> for more
details.
AUTHOR
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>
CONTRIBUTORS
Rafael Kitover <rkitover@cpan.org>
Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2009 Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
ModPerl::RegistryCooker CGI::Emulate::PSGI
perl v5.14.2 2011-05-24 CGI::Compile(3pm)