[hunchentoot-devel] Re: hunchentoot authorization
Cyrus Harmon
ch-tbnl at bobobeach.com
Sun Apr 13 01:21:55 UTC 2008
Robert,
Yes, I agree. This certainly doesn't have to be part of hunchentoot.
However, I see an opportunity for lightweight hunchentoot-specific
user authentication/authorization package that could provide this
functionality. Moreover, some minor tweaks to hunchentoot might make
this an easier task. I'd like to stay away from a full-fledged web
framework ala UCW or weblocks, however, and I'm willing to 1) make
this library totally hunchentoot-specific and 2) if necessary propose
modifications to hunchentoot that would facilitate the implementation
of this library. In particular, the hunchentoot dispatch stuff, while
flexible, could, I think, be improved in ways that would make the
implementation of this library more facile. But I'm just brainstorming
at the moment and don't have any concrete examples, other than the
fact that meta-dispatch stuff feels like it might be cleaner with some
sort of CLOS custom method combination might. Then again, it's
flexible enough that this can be implemented on top of the existing
stuff with little penalty, so perhaps I should explore that instead of
just writing windy emails...
Yes, to be clear, this discussion is more about my half-baked ideas
for the future of hunchentoot-auth than it is about changes to
hunchentoot to include some user authentication framework.
Thanks for listening,
Cyrus
On Apr 12, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Robert Synnott wrote:
> To me, this seems like pushing Hunchentoot more in the direction of
> being a web framework than just a webserver. Not that there's anything
> wrong with that, of course, but it could probably be just as easily
> done with a library that sits on top and implements a light-weight
> framework.
> Rob
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