Hello.
I'm new to this list (hello) and fairly new in my job, which I took over
from a regular poster to this list. I've found my way around AxKit pretty
well, but now I want to make some big changes to the website and I'm
getting a bit stuck. Perhaps just stuck in my own thoughts, but still, you
might be able to help me. :)
The website currently logs users off after 30 minutes of inactivity and if
they come back after that, they need to log in again. We want to make them
log in automatically upon returning (if they have agreed to that, of
course). Now it's not very hard to do that, but I want this to be done
_before_ the server decides whether the user has access to the page at
all.
We use the Apache::AxKit::Plugin::Session plugin to decide which users can
see which pages. I would like it to be so that users that use a direct
link/bookmark to a 'restricted' page to which they have access to, the
server would log them in, recognize they do have access to the page they
try to view, process the page and return it to the user('s browser).
Would something like this be possible?
(An alternative -that I just thought of while typing this- would be the
following sequence: 'anonymous' user tries to access restricted page ->
redirected to general login page -> user is logged in there (by server) ->
appears to have access after all -> is redirected back to original page.
Any thoughts on this? It seems a bit complicated and -if for some reason
the automatic login fails- the risk of the user ending up in an infinite
loop seems likely.)
Thanks. (And sorry if this is a silly question/not very on-topic.)
Martijn
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Martijn Grooten
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