[pmwiki-devel] Help with understanding an authentication problem

[Dominique Faure]

Hi,

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 06:03, John Rankin <john.rankin at affinity.co.nz> wrote:
> (a) explain what might be going on to cause the problem

Looking at "http://www.parakoos.com/info.php", the php installation
seems to be using suhosin, which provides some kind of session
protection, ie. you cannot exchange session data between 2 php
instances as easily as before.

> (b) suggest what might be done to fix it

Perhaps, by providing your own way to propagade unserialized auth info
from one instance to another.

ITOH, why not writing a new PmWiki delegated auth scheme recipe, made
of two scripts:

* A delegated auth function responsive to forward auth request from a
slave Pmwiki to a master one.

* The latter would host a set of handler functions able to answer to
slave requests as if they were locally made.

This would imply some network tools such as curl, or Snoopy
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/).

-- 
Dominique

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

R: Parce que ça renverse bêtement l'ordre naturel de lecture!
Q: Mais pourquoi citer en début de message est-il si effroyable?