You already have everything you need basically.
1) Turn on session management in your cf application (it's probably already
on)
2) In onSessionStart in app.cfc,
session.isUserAuthenicated = false;
3) In your login routine, when the user successfully logs in, add a line:
session.isUserAuthenicated = true
4) Add a new remote method in your authentication cfc
function isUserAuthenicated() {
return session. isUserAuthenicated;
}
5) In your 2nd flex app, call your cfc. isUserAuthenicated(). If it
returns true, proceed, otherwise bail. The session information is
preserved on the server, so both apps will see it.
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Laurence MacNeill
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Oh, yeah -- I'm using that login system there, but it doesn't create
> session ID's... It just verifies the user-name and password is valid (thru
> an HTTPS connection, of course). Once it's been validated, the program
> runs as usual... The first thing that pops up when you run my existing
> Flex program is the login window, so you can't do anything until you log
> in...
>
> What I'm trying to do now is, within that existing program, call another
> Flex program in another window -- but I don't want the user to have to log
> in again, and I don't want to pass the user-name and password thru a
> URL... And I don't want this new Flex program to be accessible to anyone
> other than someone who's already logged into my existing Flex program, or
> into the web-site (which uses ColdFusion sessions to "remember" that
> they've already logged in.)
>
> So I'm trying to figure out how to create a ColdFusion session from within
> a Flex program, I guess... Anyone ever done that?
>
> Thanks,
> L.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Douglas Knudsen <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> a couple posts on this to get started, one you might recall even :)
>>
>>
>> http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Popup_Flex_login_with_ColdFusion_backend-12346.html
>>
>>
>> http://www.brucephillips.name/blog/index.cfm/2007/3/17/Login-System-For-A-Flex-Application-With-ColdFusion-Backend-Part-2--Flex--ColdFusion-Connectivity
>>
>>
>>
>> Douglas Knudsen
>> http://www.cubicleman.com
>> this is my signature, like it?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Laurence MacNeill <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, we are running ColdFusion 9, so I guess I'll check out how to
>>> create a session on CF9.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> L.
>>> On Sep 10, 2012 8:33 AM, "Scott Talsma" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The server session approach will require an application server (PHP,
>>>> CF, .net, java, etc.).
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_(computer_science)
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Laurence MacNeill <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The server session sounds like something I'd prefer over the browser
>>>>> cookie... How would I go about creating a server session in a Flex
>>>>> program, though?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> L.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sunday, September 9, 2012, Scott Talsma wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I would approach this via a session. The user gets an authentication
>>>>>> token when they enter the correct way. You could save this in the server
>>>>>> session (if you have a server) or simply as a browser session cookie.
>>>>>> Your
>>>>>> 2nd app checks for a vald session when it starts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sunday, September 9, 2012, Laurence MacNeill wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have a Flex program that I only want users to be able to access if
>>>>>>> they're already inside a different Flex program I wrote, or inside a
>>>>>>> web-page on my server.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there a way, within that Flex program to which I want to restrict
>>>>>>> access, to tell the URL or server *from* which it was called?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In other words, If someone types
>>>>>>> http://www.mydomain.com/MyRestrictedFlexProgram.html directly into
>>>>>>> their browser, I want the program to tell the user they don't have
>>>>>>> access
>>>>>>> -- BUT if a different Flex program (or a web-page) on my server calls
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> URL, I want my restricted-access Flex program to go ahead and run
>>>>>>> normally...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>>>>>>> Laurence MacNeill
>>>>>>> Mableton, Georgia, USA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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