From: Daniel Berger <djberge@...>
Date: 2002-10-24T01:15:42+09:00
Subject: Re: XMLRPC and IP authentication

Michael Neumann wrote:

>
>
> I've added a ip_auth_handler method in class Server, which is called
> from method serve (in httpserver.rb) before request_handler is called.
> This method should return true if the client is allowed to connect,
> otherwise false.
> This way, you can simply override Server#ip_auth_handler to perform
> IP-based restrictions.
>
> What's the right status code when IP auth disallows access?
> 405 - Method not allowed?
>
> Regards,
>
>   Michael

Sounds interesting, but how does it work?

All I really want to do is something like this:

valid_ip = ["1.2.3.4","22.33.44.55"]
server.set_service_hook{ |obj,*args|
   raise SomeException unless valid_ip.include?(server.peer_addr)
   obj.call(*args)
}

Regards,

Dan