Re: user authentication via TCPSend

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2005


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 63393
interpreted = N
texte = Terry Wilson wrote: > I have a TCPConnect and TCPSend to log into a site with directory > protection. But it's not making the authentication 'stick' with the > browser. Yeah, that's not going to work. The issue is that since the browser itself isn't doing the logging in, the browser is unable to cache the login information. > What I'm trying to do is maintain a user database on my server so we > can authenticate the users via the database, then pass them onto the > club's main site at another server. I would actually turn your model inside out: 1) end user attempts to login to main site; 2) main site consults the user database on other server; 3) main site caches the successful login locally and uses that from then on to authenticate with the browsers' cached authentication. Alternatively, just skip the second server entirely and have all authentication happen on the main site. This entire scheme smells like premature optimization. It is also pretty daft (IMNSHO) to have a single login to the main site, since you are unable to know who it was that was logged in. HTH John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: user authentication via TCPSend ( Terry Wilson 2005)
  2. Re: user authentication via TCPSend ( John Peacock 2005)
  3. user authentication via TCPSend ( Terry Wilson 2005)
Terry Wilson wrote: > I have a TCPConnect and TCPSend to log into a site with directory > protection. But it's not making the authentication 'stick' with the > browser. Yeah, that's not going to work. The issue is that since the browser itself isn't doing the logging in, the browser is unable to cache the login information. > What I'm trying to do is maintain a user database on my server so we > can authenticate the users via the database, then pass them onto the > club's main site at another server. I would actually turn your model inside out: 1) end user attempts to login to main site; 2) main site consults the user database on other server; 3) main site caches the successful login locally and uses that from then on to authenticate with the browsers' cached authentication. Alternatively, just skip the second server entirely and have all authentication happen on the main site. This entire scheme smells like premature optimization. It is also pretty daft (IMNSHO) to have a single login to the main site, since you are unable to know who it was that was logged in. HTH John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ John Peacock

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