Thank you Mr. Taylor, Mr. Stienstra<br><br>It feels so great to be on the cutting edge of 1999's web encryption and authorization!<br><br>Mr Taylor, I have used your module for digest authorization and was wondering if you could answer a couple of questions:<br>
What does module_function do without calling a :symbol?<br>How is the «service» function called when I'm calling «authenticate», which only function is to raise if a condition is not met?<br><br>Mr. Stienstra, I have looked into using SSL with WEBrick. Thank you very much, it is exactly what I was looking for.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Brendan Taylor <<a href="mailto:whateley@gmail.com">whateley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 07:39:59PM +0100, Manfred Stienstra wrote:<br>
> On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Albert Ng wrote:<br>
><br>
> > looking at the blog.rb example, I see a very nice example of<br>
> > authentication, but the username/password is transmitted in clear<br>
> > text form<br>
> ><br>
> > My question then is, Is there an easy way of "encrypting" that<br>
> > information?<br>
><br>
> Well, the easiest way is to do logins over SSL. A second option could<br>
> be HTTP Digest Authentication, but browser support for that is flackey<br>
> to say the least.<br>
<br>
</div>I've been using Digest myself, can't say I've run into any<br>
problems with browser support. Browser UI for it isn't great, of<br>
course.<br>
</blockquote><div>... <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
At the beginning of every controller method you want to be<br>
authenticated, call the 'authenticate' method.</blockquote><div> </div><div>attached is my current progress.<br> </div></div>