[!! SPAM] Re: Emulate mod_auth_mysql in nginx?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:19:20PM +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote:

> Igor Sysoev ha scritto:
> >[...]
> >>If you really want to use a database as a backend, you should use 
> >>PostgreSQL, since libpq offer an async interface; and you should use a 
> >>stored procedure for the authentication.
> >
> >Yes, you right. However, I have almost ready async mysql interface for 
> >nginx,
> >that can be used here.
> 
> Written from scratch, implementing the MySQL wire protocol?

Yes.

> By the way, after having implemented a pure PostgreSQL client in Python, 
> I tried to do the same with MySQL; but protocol design is very bad, 
> compared to PostgreSQL, so I gave up; it does not make sense to waste 
> time with MySQL, IMHO,

It's already wasted :). The reamining part is parsing mysql response.


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