LSID Authority Security

Versions 0.07 of the Perl LSID resolver library and authority framework
provide HTTP Basic authentication for securing authorities. In order
to use this functionality, you must use the following mod_rewrite
configuration directives in Apache:

Alias /authority/ "/var/www/htdocs/authority/authority.pl"
                                                                                                                 
<Location /authority>
    SetHandler cgi-script
    Options +ExecCGI
    RewriteEngine on 
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
    RewriteRule ^(.*) $1 [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l]
</Location>

This is to overcome Apache's automatic consumption of the authentication
headers.