Package: libapache-authcookie-perl (3.10-1)

Apache/mod_perl Authentication and Authorization via cookies

This package contains a Perl module, Apache::AuthCookie, which can be used to simplify the creation of mod_perl based web sites that require user authentication. This module is used by various Web application frameworks written in Perl.

Apache::AuthCookie allows you to intercept a user's first unauthenticated access to a protected document. The user will be presented with a custom form where they can enter authentication credentials. The credentials are posted to the server where AuthCookie verifies them and returns a session key.

The session key is returned to the user's browser as a cookie. As a cookie, the browser will pass the session key on every subsequent accesses. AuthCookie will verify the session key and re-authenticate the user.

Tags: Software Development: Perl Development, Libraries, Implemented in: Perl, Network Protocol: HTTP, Role: Shared Library, Security: Authentication, Application Suite: Apache