[Zope-CMF] Basic Auth and SSL?

[Carl Rendell]

That looks right to me. I'll be working on the solution over the 
next month or two, and will post my results when testing is 
complete.

~C

On Sunday, June 9, 2002, at 04:00  PM, seb bacon wrote:

> I use Apache as the server, and use mod_rewrite to redirect any 
> requests for the login form to port 443.  You then need to make 
> logged_in redirect to port 80.
>
> For example (off the top of my head, so is probably wrong):
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>   RewriteCond ^/(.*)/login_form   https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/login_form
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> seb
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> Carl Rendell wrote:
>> I'm sure someone has already run across this so I thought I'd ask 
>> the group.
>> Short of running the server or proxy server full time over SSL, 
>> it is possible or practical to run just the login screens and/or 
>> basic Auth over that port?
>> For the most part I've been dealing with internal (inside the 
>> firewall) deployments, but I just received a request to expose 
>> information outside of the firewall as well. I've been doing 
>> research on all the sites, but nothing has popped out yet.
>> If anyone cares to wade in with their opinion or experience on 
>> SSL, authentication over SSL, and so on. I would appreciate it.
>> BTW: is this a question for this list? If not which list would 
>> you suggest?
>> ~C
Carl E. Rendell
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