Re: WebCat/Flash/authentication/protection

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texte = on 5/3/00 5:50 PM, Joseph D'Andrea at JoeDan@West21.com wrote:This is something that I am very interested in as 1. I used to do a fair bit of webcat 2. now I do even more with Flash and I would like to marry the two . . . just haven't had the time.Flash (4) has no problem passing variables etc with get and post.One way to make sure that user's could not get to the protected flash content is to have the content load inside a flash movie only after a user has been authenticated.Flash uses levels of external movies much like layers in photoshop etc.Each level is a separate movie and can be loaded into another movie so . . .call the movie that has the authenticate code level0, if the user passes the authenticate area, a command is issued in Flash to load level1 otherwise do something else.The movie that will be level1 can sit anywhere.The idea being that there can be no content loaded from the protected area because it isn't even loaded yet, unless the password is correct.A user can't even find the url for the movie level1 because it doesn't have one as it is loaded into level0This way, the webcat code is passed in flash in the first movie only once and doesn't have to be used again.I'm pretty sure that this would be the simplist way to do it but you'd have to do it from within flash.Hope that helps a bit.D.> > > I'm trying to spec out a job that will involve Flash. The client will > be hosting the entire sit on my server and they will be responsible > for all the flash content. (thank goddess). > > I will be responsible for an authentication front-end. It's simple > enough in that it will be a small database of only 300 or so people > and the fields will be minimal... username, password, e-mail address, > name. > > I'm trying to come up with a scheme whereby the user will hit the > home page and be presented with a username/password form. (The client > doesn't want the usual browser authentication challenge dialog box). > The form's action will verify them in the database and either > challenge them again if the entered informatio is wrong, or pass them > to the URL that is the entry point of the protected Flash content. > > FWIW... The Flash content appears in a window without any browser > navigation and all navigation from the first page on is via Flash > actions not the usual tags. > > I can put all the Flash content in a separate folder. > > The goal is to make any WebCat code on the Flash page minimal... > Maybe just an include file or something and all that should happen > there is that we somehow verify that the user logged in first. Any > attempts to load a page from the protected area should result in the > user being directed immediately back to the login page. > > Any thought on how doing this with Flash pages is different from > normal pages, and what would your suggestion be for the absolute > minimal code for the flash page? > > Thanks, > ___Joe___ > > > _________________________________________________ > Joseph D'Andrea JoeDan@West21.com > WEST21.com Internet services for the 21st Century > http://www.west21.com/ > _________________________________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: WebCat/Flash/authentication/protection (David Bastedo 2000)
  2. WebCat/Flash/authentication/protection (Joseph D'Andrea 2000)
on 5/3/00 5:50 PM, Joseph D'Andrea at JoeDan@West21.com wrote:This is something that I am very interested in as 1. I used to do a fair bit of webcat 2. now I do even more with Flash and I would like to marry the two . . . just haven't had the time.Flash (4) has no problem passing variables etc with get and post.One way to make sure that user's could not get to the protected flash content is to have the content load inside a flash movie only after a user has been authenticated.Flash uses levels of external movies much like layers in photoshop etc.Each level is a separate movie and can be loaded into another movie so . . .call the movie that has the authenticate code level0, if the user passes the authenticate area, a command is issued in Flash to load level1 otherwise do something else.The movie that will be level1 can sit anywhere.The idea being that there can be no content loaded from the protected area because it isn't even loaded yet, unless the password is correct.A user can't even find the url for the movie level1 because it doesn't have one as it is loaded into level0This way, the webcat code is passed in flash in the first movie only once and doesn't have to be used again.I'm pretty sure that this would be the simplist way to do it but you'd have to do it from within flash.Hope that helps a bit.D.> > > I'm trying to spec out a job that will involve Flash. The client will > be hosting the entire sit on my server and they will be responsible > for all the flash content. (thank goddess). > > I will be responsible for an authentication front-end. It's simple > enough in that it will be a small database of only 300 or so people > and the fields will be minimal... username, password, e-mail address, > name. > > I'm trying to come up with a scheme whereby the user will hit the > home page and be presented with a username/password form. (The client > doesn't want the usual browser authentication challenge dialog box). > The form's action will verify them in the database and either > challenge them again if the entered informatio is wrong, or pass them > to the URL that is the entry point of the protected Flash content. > > FWIW... The Flash content appears in a window without any browser > navigation and all navigation from the first page on is via Flash > actions not the usual tags. > > I can put all the Flash content in a separate folder. > > The goal is to make any WebCat code on the Flash page minimal... > Maybe just an include file or something and all that should happen > there is that we somehow verify that the user logged in first. Any > attempts to load a page from the protected area should result in the > user being directed immediately back to the login page. > > Any thought on how doing this with Flash pages is different from > normal pages, and what would your suggestion be for the absolute > minimal code for the flash page? > > Thanks, > ___Joe___ > > > _________________________________________________ > Joseph D'Andrea JoeDan@West21.com > WEST21.com Internet services for the 21st Century > http://www.west21.com/ > _________________________________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to David Bastedo

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