Re: authenticating a second user, the sequel

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1997

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 14415
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texte = >>>>[showif [variable]=[username]]>>[authenticate New User]>>[/showif]>>>>This will create a button entitled Authenticate which, when>>clicked, will bring up the browser's authenticate dialog box. The>>person who clicks this button must enter a *different* username and>>password than the values currently cached in the browser.>>Hi Ken,>>This worked fine, but what if I want to send my user to a page where he>gets information extracted from a database based on what he entered in>the authentication dialog. With this script I have to add a link below>your authentication code so that AFTER having registered he goes to his>own page following a link.>Is there a way to send the user to a new protected page after the>authentication is cleared ?Yes!Instead of using the code exactly as I wrote it above, simply change[thisurl] to the path to the page you want your user to login on.Then when he/she enter a new and different (and correct) Username &Password in the browser's dialog box, the user will immediately seethe login page. Remember, the login page must have a[protect] tag init, and the new values the user enters into the Browser'sauthenticate box will have to be valid for the group named in the[protect] tag.What's even better is that if your login page has a [search] contextin it that performs a search based on the Username or Password valuescached by the browseer, that search will retrieve that user's recordsinstantly ... :)Sincerely, Ken GromeWebDNA Solutionshttp://www.smithmicro.com/webdnasolutions/. Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: authenticating a second user, the sequel (Kenneth Grome 1997)
authenticating a second user, the sequel (Laurent Pladys 1997)

>>>>[showif [variable]=[username]]>>[authenticate New User]>>[/showif]>>>>This will create a button entitled Authenticate which, when>>clicked, will bring up the browser's authenticate dialog box. The>>person who clicks this button must enter a *different* username and>>password than the values currently cached in the browser.>>Hi Ken,>>This worked fine, but what if I want to send my user to a page where he>gets information extracted from a database based on what he entered in>the authentication dialog. With this script I have to add a link below>your authentication code so that AFTER having registered he goes to his>own page following a link.>Is there a way to send the user to a new protected page after the>authentication is cleared ?Yes!Instead of using the code exactly as I wrote it above, simply change[thisurl] to the path to the page you want your user to login on.Then when he/she enter a new and different (and correct) Username &Password in the browser's dialog box, the user will immediately seethe login page. Remember, the login page must have a[protect] tag init, and the new values the user enters into the Browser'sauthenticate box will have to be valid for the group named in the[protect] tag.What's even better is that if your login page has a [search] contextin it that performs a search based on the Username or Password valuescached by the browseer, that search will retrieve that user's recordsinstantly ... :)Sincerely, Ken GromeWebDNA Solutionshttp://www.smithmicro.com/webdnasolutions/. Kenneth Grome

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Re: authenticating a second user, the sequel

1997

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