Re: RFC on merge of PHPLib and Pear
| From: | Chuck Hagenbuch | Date: | Wed, 07 Mar 2001 16:42:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RFC on merge of PHPLib and Pear | ||
| Groups: | php.pear | ||
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Quoting Björn Schotte <bjoern@baer.main.de>:
> But Auth is not a specific solution, Auth is very generic. And,
> another reason for placing these things in PEAR/ and not in
> PHPLib/ is that auth is such a basic thing for so many applications
> that it should be "PEAR Auth".
Can you use phplib's auth to authenticate someone by ip address? What about by
username and password but only if they're coming from a certain ip address? The
list goes on and on... it's not generic.
I'm building such a system, btw, but I don't want to force it on anyone.
-chuck
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