[web-devel] Happstack authentication and sessions

[Asafe Ribeiro]

Yes, but besides seem overkill for what i want to do, it led to a
dependency hell.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:22 PM, dag.odenhall at gmail.com
<dag.odenhall at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Asafe Ribeiro <asafe.hai.kai at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> How is Session management usually done in Happstack. I found two
>> packages, happastack-auth and happastack-authentication but both seem
>> outdated and no longer manteined (could not even get them to build).
>
>
> We're working on a clientsession integration package for Happstack.  Getting
> sessions right is harder than it might seem, especially as we'd like to do
> something more interesting than a key-value store for Happstack. In the mean
> time, you could perhaps do something simple yourself, such as generating a
> session ID with the entropy package and store that in a cookie as base64.
> Then you can use that ID to look things up in acid-state, for example.
>
> Have you looked at this for authentication?
> http://src.seereason.com/happstack-authenticate/