AuthzHandler, index.html not being accessed

[Ken Miller <kl...@shetlandsoftware.com>]

I've got an interesting problem, related to my development of some
Authen/Authz handlers.

I have a directory on which I've installed an Access, Authen, and Authz
handler:

- the Access handler makes sure a cookie exists, and redirects the user to a
login page if it doens't.  If the cookie does exist, populate
$r->connection->user. This works.

- Authen handler currently returns OK - it will be used to validate the user
as stored in the cookie

If I 'require valid-user' in the directory, my authz handler doesn't get
invoked, which I expect.  However, If I request the directory (ie. /test/) I
get a directory listing instead of index.html.  If I take out the require,
thereby bypassing authen/authz, I get index.html.  If I also put in custom
'requires', my authz handler is invoked, and the same thing happens.

So, it seems that when OK is returned from an authz handler, the
DirectoryIndex is not being read.

I've been unsucessful in trying to find a solution.

Ideas?

    -klm.

BTW, I understand that what I'm doing does appear to be similar to
Apache::AuthCookie, but I have a few different requirements that I need to
incorporate....