David Sean Taylor wrote:
>>Can a cookie(s) be used to automatically login a user? This
>>makes using
>>Jetspeed as the user "homepage" convenient.
>>
>
> Yes. Do you use excite or any of the other popular personal portals (yahoo)?
> Im using MyExcite, and it always remembers to log me in to my personalized
> page automatically.
> I believe you just need to set a cookie with a long expiration time (or no
> expiration).
> The servlet cookie api is very easy.
> This can be an option in Jetspeed - I just need to give it some thought as
> to how it is configured and where the code should go.
> Maybe in the JRP, something like:
>
> logon.automatic=true
>
> Any ideas?
You just need an alternate login action that sets a cookie with a uid/auth token
(or simply uid if you don't care about security) and modify the sessionValidator
to automatically log you in if you have the cookie set. Pretty easy really.
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Vivendi Universal Networks - Paris
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