What I've been using the portlet for is signing into other webapps that use the same username/password combination. I've been using this with Tiki after modifying the tiki-login to support redirection. You basically take an existing web application and point the IframePortlet at the login page. Let's use hotmail for an example. If you look at their homepage the login portion of the page contains the all important variables: action, login, and password. To transparently log in using the IframePortlet we'll reproduce the login functionality in a http GET instead of a POST. With the changes I made to the portlet, instead of being able to just go to https://logginnet.passport.com/ppsecure/post.srf you can now go to https://logginnet.passport.com/ppsecure/post.srf?login=$username&password=$clearpassword&Submit=true Once you figure out which web page does the actual authentication and which variables it expects (username/name/User/etc...) for which variables I defined ($username,$password,$clearpassword,etc...) you can have the Iframe load with the already logged in version. In answer to the second part of your question, it is good only for form based authentication. There is an existing Basic authentication Iframe portlet which should do what you want. If you need any additional information of if my explanation wasn't clear enough (I'm usually not), I can post further information and examples including some examples for Tiki. Enjoy, Dan
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 18:13, Rajendra Kadam wrote: > Hi all, > > This is in reference to post "Iframe Portlet with Parameter > Passing" that was posted by "Dan Elder" on this mailing > list in month of Jun 2003. > > In that, Dan Elder has mentions IFrame Portlet (extended > to original one ) which can pass userid and password ( the > one used to log into Jetspeed Portal ) to websites that > require Authentication so that it will provide seamless > access to protected websites too. > > Does anybody has used that Portlet to access password > protected websites ? > > Also want to know does it makes "Basic Authentication" as > well as "Form Based Authentication" ? > > Dan, do you have any examples that will help in > understanding how protected websites can be accessed ? > > Thanks, > rajendra > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---------------------------------------------- Dan Elder, Software Developer, Novacoast, Inc. Voice: (805) 884-4152 Mobile: (805) 453-6563 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------
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