Ok, things are working quite smoothly, however, I'd really like to use a single login script for multiple dependent cgi's.
For instance, I've got an admin and a reporting cgi that both rely on the same login logic. I'd like the login instance CGI to provide for being called from either script after being redirected there due to a lack of session, then be sent back to the originally requested script. Solutions: 1) use HTTP_REFERRER to set the redirect logic. Unfortunately, I suspect that this variable is set to the referrer of the redirecting script and not the redirecting script itself. In other words, I call my my report.cgi from a directory index. report.cgi then redirects to login.cgi due to lack of session. The HTTP_REFERRER is then set to the directory index, not report.cgi's URL. More research required. 2) pass in HTTP variable with URL to which to be redirected, and pass in a special value for session(success'). 3) have a 3rd option which is the menu or routing option for all of the scripts which depend on the login -- probably what I'll wind up doing now. Should I bother thinking of clever ways to redirect from the login CGI? -Eric. -- Eric D. Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web Development / Solaris-Linux / Perl / SQL http://nylug.org/~eberg Tel. 646-418-3608 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
