Yeesh! Doesn't sound right, but with computers anything can happen! Glad it
is working for you... I guess don't touch it! :-)
-V
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris ten Den <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Logging in w/o using the standard login.
> Half the time we were getting "no document" errors and the rest we were
getting
> another kind of HTTP error. So then we threw a multipart/enctype in the
form
> tag and it went through to the Imail server but only returned their login
> screen. It was not until we renamed the sending asp script as login.cgi
that
> the login screen was bypassed. At first I assumed the cgi script was
looking
> for the referrer to be login.cgi but as I have seen from your posts it
obviously
> is not the case. I'm even more confused now. Fortunately it works the
way it
> is.
>
> Vaughn Thurman wrote:
>
> > Something is not clicking here. You submit to login.cgi.... the
required
> > fields here can be sent as hidden provided that you have a means of
> > populating them with appropriate values (Such as ASP, Perl, etc.). You
> > package up all your goodies and "POST" it all to LOGIN.CGI. What are
you
> > talking about that is wanting you to send it login.cgi?
> > Did you see my previous message with the demo code for both a form based
> > login and for a an ASP based login? I took those from working code. I
have
> > lots of users that get in every day that way. What am I missing? Keep
> > talking and we will help you get this thing going. What are you using
to
> > carry their identity around the rest of your site?
> > -V
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Chris ten Den <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 9:58 AM
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Logging in w/o using the standard login.
> >
> > > Unfortunately visible fields were unacceptable, plus the form is on a
> > > different server. Imail would simply not accept anything other than
> > login.cgi
> > > from us. Wierd...
> > >
> > > Scott Pouliot wrote:
> > >
> > > > Not true Chris ;-) You can simply create an HTML form with 2
visible
> > > > fields and one hidden field as follows:
> > > >
> > > > <form method="POST" action="http://mywebserver:8383/login.cgi">
> > > > <input type="hidden" name="page" value="login">
> > > > <table width=400>
> > > > <tr valign="top">
> > > > <td>Username<BR><input type=text name="userid" value=""
> > size="15"></td>
> > > > <td width="10"></td>
> > > > <td>Password<BR><input type="password" name="passwd"
size="15"></td>
> > > > <td width="10"></td>
> > > > <td><input type="submit" value="Login"></td>
> > > > </tr>
> > > > </table>
> > > > </form>
> > > >
> > > > As long as your form submits to login.cgi running on the IMail
> > side...your
> > > > good to go!
>
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