problems with mod_auth_openid

[Jamie McClelland]

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On Thu Aug 09, Jamie McClelland wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just installed the PHP Standalone server and it seems to be working well.
> 
> However, I can't get it to work with mod_auth_openid.

I seem to have traced the problem to the math library. I'm running Debian,
which includes the slow bc math functions but not the fastet gmp functions in
PHP (for a discussion, see:
http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/yadis/2005-August/thread.html#1336).

On a relatively fast machine, it takes 35 seconds for the PHP openid library
to run the bcpowmod() function. That causes mod_auth_openid to time out :(.

I've recompiled with gmp support and the problem is solved. I don't know
anything about math - is there a faster way to do that math? Is there a
command line tool that could produce the numbers via a php exec call?
Recompiling php is real pain - but without doing that I don't see how it's
possible to use the php stand alone server :(.

jamie

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