Re: How to get a container to know what Principaliscalling it?

[Laird J. Nelson]

Jon Tirsen wrote:

> > You can also render the page based on the roles. Both principal and
> > roles are exposed to the application so you can customize the user
> > interface based on them.
> Yeah, but maybe he doesn't want the application server to show a login-page
> only at request from the user. But when the user is authenticated the page
> looks different. This scenario is pretty common.

Right.  Think my.yahoo.com for example, before you've set up preferences.  Or
think slashdot.org.  Or any other of a gazillion sites out there whose pages
change depending on whether you're logged in yet or not.  Just because you
aren't logged in doesn't mean that they won't show the page; it just looks
different (i.e. usually more general).

Cheers,
Laird

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