[OpenID] Apache openid auth module (python)

[Rowan Kerr]

Some time last year, Brad Fitzpatrick forwarded a module by Trevor
Clarke to the yadis list. It was a Python script for doing Basic HTTP
authentication for users over OpenID (with mod_python).
http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/yadis/2005-May/000255.html

I dug it up on a Google search, and did some hacking to make it
basically work with OpenID 2 as a potential solution for something
we've run into at the office. Not sure if anyone is interested in it
but I can post my changes if someone would like to do more work on it,
or suggest where improvements should be made. (It's pretty bare
bones).

A problem I ran into was that each page requests runs the entire
authentication over again. Maybe using a session of some kind within
the module would be possible to avoid the numerous redirects to the
IdP/OP and back.

-Rowan

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