Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 14:31:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Lists <lists@mrvid.demon.co.uk> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Joe Mays <jfmays@launchpad.win.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Distributed Webservers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980116143011.15273C-100000@millennium.net> In-Reply-To: <199801160210.UAA11703@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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Hi > In the nature of WWW, with hyperlinks all over the place, we have a > customer who wants authenticated logins to all of their sites, scattered > hither and yon. On following a hyperlink to another site (part of their > system) is not happy with an additional password challenge. > > Others are working this problem, but from what I hear the supposed > solution involves purchasing everything in Netscape's catalog. > > Any suggestions? Sample code? Hmm.. maybe use cookies that timeout after an hour? (i.e when you write the cookie make it stamp the date & time in the cookie, if it's past an hour when the user returns to the site he has to re-type his password in). (Though this may have security ramifications on the client side) ...just a thought :) L8rz KrOnUs <kronus@null.net>
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