HTTP Authentication

auth_http is an authentication plugin that authenticates connections using web-based HTTP authentication through a URL. A web server is required to provide authentication. For example, see Apache’s documentation for Authentication, Authorization and Access Control. Currently, SSL connections are not supported.

Note

Unload the Allow All Authentication plugin before using this plugin.

See also

Authentication

Loading

To load this plugin, start drizzled with:

--plugin-add=auth_http

Loading the plugin may not enable or configure it. See the plugin’s Configuration and Variables.

See also

Plugin Options for more information about adding and removing plugins.

Configuration

These command line options configure the plugin when drizzled is started. See Command Line Options for more information about specifying command line options.

--auth-http.url ARG
Default :
Variable :auth_http_url
Required :This option must be specified

URL for http authentication (required). If this plugin is loaded, then this option must be specified, else drizzled will not start.

Variables

These variables show the running configuration of the plugin. See variables for more information about querying and setting variables.

  • auth_http_url

    Scope:Global
    Dynamic:No
    Option:--auth-http.url

    URL for HTTP authentication.

Examples

Sorry, there are no examples for this plugin.

Authors

Mark Atwood

Version

This documentation applies to auth_http 0.1.

To see which version of the plugin a Drizzle server is running, execute:

SELECT MODULE_VERSION FROM DATA_DICTIONARY.MODULES WHERE MODULE_NAME='auth_http'

Chanagelog

v0.1

  • First release.

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