NAME

Authen::Ticket - Perl extension for implementing ticket authentication

SYNOPSIS

PerlHandler Authen::Ticket

or

PerlAccessHandler Authen::Ticket
ErrorDocument     403  http://ticket.tamu.edu/TicketMaster/

DESCRIPTION

Authen::Ticket provides the mod_perl framework for using the Authen::Ticket::Server and Authen::Ticket::Client classes as Apache handlers.

To create custom handlers, derive a class (My::Authen) from Authen::Ticket:

package My::Authen;
use vars (qw/@ISA/);
@ISA = (qw/Authen::Ticket/);

In addition to My::Authen, the server and client classes are also required:

package My::Authen::Server;
use vars (qw/@ISA/);
@ISA = (qw/Authen::Ticket::Server/);

sub authenticate {
  my($self, $u) = @_;
  my $t = { };

  # do stuff
  return $t;   # hash ref to ticket contents
}

package My::Authen::Client;
use vars (qw/@ISA/);
@ISA = (qw/Authen::Ticket::Client/);

See the documentation for each of Authen::Ticket::Server and Authen::Ticket::Client for a list of methods that may be implemented.

AUTHOR

James G. Smith <jgsmith@tamu.edu>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1999, Texas A&M University. All rights reserved.

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SEE ALSO

perl(1), Authen::Ticket::Client(3), Authen::Ticket::Server(3).