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I need to build a simple web-application. I decided to do it with Poet ( Mason2 ), which uses Plack. The application should be allowed to use only by authenticated users, so I need build some login/password functionality. There already is a Plack module Plack::Middleware::Auth::Basic that allows using Basic user auth that makes it possible to setup to check .htpasswd or similar. But the basic authentication is not very secure; anybody can grab the login password with packet capturing or the like. Here are 2 possible solutions: running my app.psgi via HTTPS(443) - link level encryption or is there some better auth method that allow secure auth without https? The questions: Regarding HTTPS - I have no idea how to run my app.psgi via HTTPS. Do I need to modify my application somewhat? Any link what shows me how to run plackup over the https? or for the second: is there some method (middleware/or perl module) what allows me build secure authentication over the standard unencrypted port?(80) So, what is an relative easy way to achieve secure authentication with a Plack application? PS: I don't care about the rest of communication. I only need secure auth that doesn't allow to grab the passwords. PPS: https is easy with apache (and self-signed) certificate. But I have no idea how to do it with plackup (and or any other Plack based server)

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