Forum OpenACS Development: Re: "Integrating" OpenACS with .htaccess

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3: Re: "Integrating" OpenACS with .htaccess (response to 2)
Posted by Dirk Gomez on 01/13/04 10:53 AM
I just want to access the external URL - I don't want the user to authenticate twice basically.
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4: Re: "Integrating" OpenACS with .htaccess (response to 3)
Posted by Michael Hanisch on 01/13/04 11:36 AM
Then just passing the user/password should be enough - if the usernames/passwords on both systems are identical, of course. So you could simply rewrite the URLs you GET to the form http://username:password@host/some/path ; or just add an "Authorization:" header to the HTTP requests (see e.g. RFC2616) and make the request using the gateway package.

Disclaimer: I haven't used the gateway package yet, but based on its feature list it seems a to be a good starting point for what you want to do.

Cheers,
Michael

P.S. Grüße nach Berlin! 😊