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Re: Authenticationby tinman (Curate) |
| on May 09, 2001 at 22:23 UTC ( [id://79192]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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There are several nodes that I know of that address this issue.. The following links are ones that you might find interesting/useful to you... Login encryption and CGI understanding A Super Search on this topic will surely turn up some more informative posts... The short version is: You can use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer, also known as Secure HTTP (https) to authenticate/encrypt a session). You can also use cookies and session variables, so there is no real need to keep a connection alive... Simply, prompt the user for a username/password, set a special variable (either through a cookie or some other mechanism) on the client so that you know the person has logged in ok... thereafter, whenever a request is made to the browser, check for the existence of this special variable and its value.. a person who has not logged in properly will not have this special session variable set..once the person logs out, unset this variable...
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