Cool and easy! Thanks, Steve, I'll try that.
BTW, has this been deployed anywhere yet?
-Eric.
Steve Comrie: [Tuesday 4-December]:
> Eric
>
> If you are using my method of login / authentication you should be able to
> do something like this:
>
> - Pass an argument to login.cgi to tell it who you are validating, ie
> &group=report or &group=admin
> - In your overloaded validate routine, grab that param from the cgi query
> and use it to decide which group you are validating. One you have validated
> a user, you can set:
> $self->param('success' => 'http://new.location/page.html);
> To change the location the script will point to on a successful login.
>
> ===
> steve comrie :: senior developer
> www.shrinkingplanet.ca
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Berg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Steve Comrie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:09 AM
> Subject: [cgiapp] Single login instance for multiple dependent scripts
>
>
> > 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
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