Re: Apache authentication efficiency -- WEB400

Subject: Re: Apache authentication efficiency
From: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:13:20 -0700
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 4:00 PM B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Would you be against rolling your own using cookies/tokens?

Just about everyone in the world does that. But it doesn't address the
original question of checking the user's credentials and checking their
authority to resources on every request ;-)

If you go that route, the token that you generate (and carry from request
to request) needs to be secure enough that no other client can duplicate it.

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