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From: "Alan Sparks" <asparks@cpd.harris.com>
To: "Jie Gao" <J.Gao@isu.usyd.edu.au>, <modperl@apache.org>
Subject: Re: Why 'require' required?
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:24:38 -0800
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Because Apache "knows" that without "require" lines, no user authentication
calls are needed.  Not mod_perl, but a core Apache algorithm.
-Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: Jie Gao <J.Gao@isu.usyd.edu.au>
>
>I have this in my .htaccess file:
>

[config snipped]
>Now if I comment out "require valid-user", neither of the
>PerlAuthenHandler and PerlAuthzHandler will be evoked, even though it
>is a phoney requirement for my handler; if I put in one require
>statement, like 'require authentication', it'll start working again.