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July 29, 2002
Phil Windley comments on my
Phil Windley comments on my talk at OSCON I asked a question about why they didn't just use HTTP authentication, instead of roling a separate authentication function inside Cocoon. I didn't get an answer that was satisfying. (via Ugo).
If I remember correctly I answered that we wanted it to be possible to integrate exisiting (application) user-databases, that Cocoon can also run without a Web server and that it would be relatively easy to integrate the HTTP authentication into the user authentication. Most of the portal scenarios we have so far come accross have been to integrate user data stored in say an oracle database or via LDAP. Ugo has some other reasons I didn't come up with fast enough.
Posted by Matthew at July 29, 2002 11:46 AM