I'm looking at upgrading a 4.4 site to 5.1 that is using the webserver_auth module on an intranet environment. Does this module pretty much supercede the webserver_auth module? It appears that webserver_auth has not been updated for 5.1, maybe because this module is it's superior? Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, if so please let me know. Thanks!

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decafdennis commented

No, webserver_auth is not the same as httpauth.

With the former (webserver_auth), you have authentication setup in your webserver, through mod_auth or LDAP or whatever. Drupal then uses that information to determine what user is logged in.

With the latter (httpauth), however, you use Drupal to set up users and/or allow users to register and login. The httpauth only provides another way to login besides Drupal's login form. This is mostly useful for RSS clients and such, not for logging in in a browser.

So I think httpauth is not what you need. There has been a feature request regarding this functionality but I do not consider it a high priority because it's not what the httpauth module is meant for.

I hope this answers your question?

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webavant commented

Yes, thank you!

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webavant commented
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