Re: [WebDNA] directory protection questions
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2008
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = ------=_Part_10737_12113683.1215452017340 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Terry, My issue with realm based passwords is that if you have used a cookie based system for login to a secure area then the user is forced to re-enter a realm username/password for file download. I'm sure you could engineer it so that it is the same username/password for both - but the user is still inconvenienced. If the code I posted works (and I haven't tested it on a PC yet) then one cookie based login will suffice. Once you then determine which files the user is allowed to download you make sure that only those filenames are passed to the download script. - Tom ------=_Part_10737_12113683.1215452017340 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Terry,
My issue with realm based passwords is that if you have used a cookie based system for login to a secure area then the user is forced to re-enter a realm username/password for file download. I'm sure you could engineer it so that it is the same username/password for both - but the user is still inconvenienced.
If the code I posted works (and I haven't tested it on a PC yet) then one cookie based login will suffice. Once you then determine which files the user is allowed to download you make sure that only those filenames are passed to the download script.
- Tom
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------=_Part_10737_12113683.1215452017340 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Terry, My issue with realm based passwords is that if you have used a cookie based system for login to a secure area then the user is forced to re-enter a realm username/password for file download. I'm sure you could engineer it so that it is the same username/password for both - but the user is still inconvenienced. If the code I posted works (and I haven't tested it on a PC yet) then one cookie based login will suffice. Once you then determine which files the user is allowed to download you make sure that only those filenames are passed to the download script. - Tom ------=_Part_10737_12113683.1215452017340 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Terry,
My issue with realm based passwords is that if you have used a cookie based system for login to a secure area then the user is forced to re-enter a realm username/password for file download. I'm sure you could engineer it so that it is the same username/password for both - but the user is still inconvenienced.
If the code I posted works (and I haven't tested it on a PC yet) then one cookie based login will suffice. Once you then determine which files the user is allowed to download you make sure that only those filenames are passed to the download script.
- Tom
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