Hi, everyone. The fascinating DPAE discussion prompted me to write a Tiny auth plugin with some similar concepts. Because I already have user authentication working -- and because I think that logic should live in the model, not in the controller -- the "wrap routes" feature of DPAE was great sugar, but I didn't want the authentication backends or the default login/logout handlers. So... I wrote just the sugar part, and left all the actual authentication up to the user. Here's the synopsis -- note the 'needs login' in the '/private' route handler line: use Dancer::Plugin::Auth::Tiny; get '/private' => needs login => sub { ... }; get '/login' => sub { # put 'return_url' in a hidden form field template 'login' => { return_url => params->{return_url} }; }; post '/login' => sub { if ( _is_valid( params->{user}, params->{password} ) ) { session user => params->{user}, return redirect params->{return_url} || '/'; } else { template 'login' => { error => "invalid username or password" }; } }; sub _is_valid { ... } # this is up to you Plus, it's extensible, if you want to replace the 'login' wrapper with your own, or if you want to add additional wrappers for your own needs. I'd love to hear feedback, so please check it out: https://metacpan.org/module/Dancer::Plugin::Auth::Tiny David -- David Golden <xdg@xdg.me> Take back your inbox! → http://www.bunchmail.com/ Twitter/IRC: @xdg