The project I'm working on currently is for the Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce. We're using CGI::Application (with my login / session module) &
HTML::Template.
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steve comrie :: senior developer
www.shrinkingplanet.ca
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Berg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Steve Comrie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [cgiapp] Single login instance for multiple dependent scripts
> 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
> > > http://nylug.org/~eberg
> > > Tel. 646-418-3608
> > >
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