Gertjan

I recently came across this - very small no of users on an internal
intranet with csp.
typically they log on and stay on all day - 8 hour session timeout

Buy exactly the license count that matches the number of users

if all is OK - fine
but if they closs cross the browser or crash or want to open another
browser window

they need a spare license in order to see the logon screen - so they
can get logged on and then do the normall license trading upto 12
connections from the logged on user
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I had a thought on this - maybe when I have time will play

make the logon-screen a non-csp app (asp,perl whetever), the
username/pasword is checked via a Cache Factory or ODBC stored
procedure call
if the password is OK then redirect to the Cache app - session starts
at this point

this also has the advantage that hackers cannot mount a DoS attack on
the login screen cos it's non-Cache and consumes no licenses - and you
have to have a valid logon to get into the csp app 

Peter



On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:51:45 +0200, Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>Bill McCormick wrote:
>
>>Because the background CSP process is not using a license - remember the 
>>license is held by the session, not the process - we take a license on 
>>the jobbed process by default. Then you can tie it to whatever you like 
>>through the available API's.
>
>This makes sense, but has the unfortunate side-effect that at least
>one free license slot must exist to start a job from a CSP page, even
>though this job shouldn't (and won't - after the login) take up a
>license slot.
>
>Doing the login *before* the Job prevents this requirement for an
>extra license slot, but presumably permanently ties the CSP process to
>a license, which seems undesirable. I have not found a way to return
>the CSP process to it's state of not using a license connection after
>the Job.
>
>Do you know of a workaround that removes the requirement of a free
>license slot without tying the CSP process to a license?
>
>Gertjan.


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