www/p5-Catalyst-Plugin-Authorization-ACL 0.16nb12 NetBSD

This module provides Access Control List style path protection, with arbitrary rules for Catalyst applications. It operates only on the Catalyst private namespace, at least at the moment.

The two hierarchies of actions and controllers in Catalyst are: * Private Namespace Every action has its own private path. This path reflects the Perl namespaces the actions were born in, and the namespaces of their controllers. * External Namespace Some actions are also directly accessible from the outside, via a URL. The private and external paths will be the same, if you are using Local actions. Alternatively Path, Regex, or Global can be used to specify a different external path for an action.

The ACL module currently only knows to exploit the private namespace. In the future extensions may be made to support external namespaces as well.

When a path is visited, rules are tested one after the other, with the most exact rule fitting the path first, and continuing up the path. Testing continues until a rule explcitly allows or denies access.