Apache 2.2.x and mod_authn_dbd

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 17:40 -0700, Micah DesJardins wrote:
> Is anyone out there using the newest Apache branch with external SQL
> authentication?
> 
> If so, how fast / responsive is it compared to .htaccess or .dbm files?
> 
> I need to be able to authenticate against SQL for some of my dynamic
> stuff but I'd really like to keep my static files behind Basic
> Authentication to prevent them from being crawled/served through other
> means.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice / insight.
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I tend to use mod_authz_ldap because I always set up LDAP at my clients
now. I personally can't see the logic behind using sql for
authentication.

Anyway, there shouldn't be a perceptible difference in speed
between .htaccess/htpasswd or any other authentication system unless you
have a lot of users simultaneously authenticating - at which point, I
would expect that a local sql socket for 1000 records would beat a local
file read of 1000 records.

Craig