You might also try actually passing the data in the URL, like you didn't
want to do, but scramble it up first. There are any number of good ways to
do that, either with TCL native, or by calling C.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, August 23, 2001 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: Form Posting
>Part of what I am trying to work around is cookies not setting on a
>redirect... as one part of what I am doing is where I am authenticating
the
>user and setting a sessionid cookie as part of my user tracking and
>security... if I use a standard redirect the cookie vapors... right now I
>am following the path of setting a url with the username as a variable
(part
>of what I would like to pass as a form post to keep hidden), and
redirecting
>the user to a new page that pulls that username from the form data and uses
>it to build part of the session cookie.. that page then uses a
meta-refresh
>to redirect to the users page.
>
>The users page (and all pages past that point) check to see if a
>sessioncookie is set and that its coming from a valid referrer.. if either
>condition is not true it redirects them back out to the login page.
>
>A bit of a kludge fix, but without the capacity to set a cookie then do a
>ns_returnredirect (which I have been assured by my code-guru and my brief
>testing doesn't work) this is what I came up with to track things..
>
>--
> Patrick Spence, Network Administrator
> Information System Dept.
> 2401 South 24th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85034
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jerry Asher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:11 AM
>Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Form Posting
>
>
>> At 11:02 AM 8/23/01, you wrote:
>> >I want to be able to redirect the user to another url on my site, and
>send
>> >information to the tcl script residing at that url (register_proc) using
>> >form data.. without the URL including the content of what I am sending..
>so
>> >I can then operate on that sent data without it being painfully clear
>what
>> >that data is to the average joe user... I don't want to use a database
>and
>> >store temporary data and refer back to that... it would make it more
>complex
>> >and add to the database usage in areas that don't need more of it...
>>
>> Try Rob's internal redirect utility, which as he says provides a tcl
>> wrapper for ns_connredirect. The effect is basically a "goto" or
>> "overlay". One moment you are running one script, then you internally
>> redirect, and you start running your other script. What's most fun is
>that
>> all your tcl variables are still there with the same values. So you need
>> not post at all.
>>
>> I've used this for exactly the purpose you've given.
>>
>> rob's utilities: http://www.dqd.com/~mayoff/aolserver/#dqd_utils
>> ns_connredirect doc: http://www.aolserver.com/docs/cdev/c-ch90.htm#576649
>>
>>
>> Jerry
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