Hmmm, maybe I don't understand the full scope of what you're asking, but seems like you could do this:
- When a user hits a secure page, redirect to the login page with a URL variable containing the page they hit (for example, <.cflocation url="login.cfm?referer=#cgi.script_name#">). - Pass that URL variable to the form processing page via a hidden form field. - If the user is authenticated, use the hidden field to redirect back to the page they were originally trying to hit. - If the user is not authenticated, use the hidden field to redirect back to the login page with the hidden field as a URL variable (starts the whole process over). Hope that works for you! Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 8:47 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: How to find out the page to send 'em back to I am working on a login system that has so many limitations you couldn't imagine it. I want to have the actual login form and processing page as a single pair of templates in a single location for the whole site. If any page requires a user to be logged in, and they're not, they'll be sent to this page and then sent back to the original page once satisfactorily logged in against a table in the datasource. Not so difficult you'd have thought. So let me put some limitations on there and see if it's still so easy: No client variables. Not allowed - all state management has to be in our site's own datasources No session variables - it's a clustered environment. No custom tags permitted Ok, so I could have the referring page add it's own location to the parameters passed to the login page. Except that #cgi.path_info# doesn't work. Gives null as a response. So the login page could use #http_referrer# (which does work) to specify where to sent the user back. But what happens when the login page goes round fhe second time or third time because they've put in the wrong password or something. It'll only have the correct #http_referrer# the first time through the page won't it? Cheers, Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP WebWorks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
