Thankyou very much Darren, this is what I wanted exactly. Also thanks to Grace who
earlier explained about previous page property.
Vishal
"DARREN KHOO, CUSD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The previous page property works by maintaining a list of pages visited by
>the user in the user profile (stored in the user session) and using it to
>compare against the previous pages defined in the page property of the page
>he is going to visit. If any ONE of the previous pages defined has been
>visited by the user ie. it is found in the user profile, then the user is
>allowed to visit the page. This is done in the verifySessionContinuity event
>of the project.
>
>In your case, a new session is created when you submit from the login page
>because the spider session has been removed from the page to prevent it from
>timing out. The newly created session will have an empty list of page
>visited and therefore the session continuity check fail. To get around with
>this, here's what you can do:
>
>In the web event of the submit button of the login page, manually add the
>current page to the list of the visited page in the user profile after you
>have successfully authenticated the user.
>
> CSpStringsSet visitedPages =
>CSpider.getUserProfile().getPreviousPages();
> visitedPages.add(getName());
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Vishal"[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [SMTP:"Vishal"[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 10:21 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: [ND] How to create a new session only on successful login?
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the reply, It worked to the extent that login page
>> no longer gets timed out but I can not go to the pages via hyperlinks
>> those have 'Login page' in their 'previous page' property.
>> Could any body tell how excatly the previous page property works?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Vishal
>>
>>
>> "DARREN KHOO, CUSD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> I guess I am able to answer #2.
>> >>
>> >> To prevent a user who left the login screen for too long from hitting
>> >> time-out the moment he logs in, you can remove the spidersession tag
>> from
>> >> the page or comment it out using html comment style and then put a form
>> >> closing tag in its place.
>> >>
>> >> With that, your page will not contain a session id and when the user
>> >> submits
>> >> the login form, it will be treated as a new session.
>> >>
>> >> <HTML>
>> >> <BODY>
>> >> [[SPIDERPAGE NAME=PgLogin]]
>> >>
>> >> :
>> >>
>> >> <!-- comment out the spidersession tag
>> >> **SPIDERSESSION**
>> >> add a form closing tag below-->
>> >> </form>
>> >>
>> >> [[/SPIDERPAGE]]
>> >>
>> >> </BODY>
>> >> </HTML>
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Vishal Gautam [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 4:08 AM
>> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> Subject: [ND] How to creat a new session only on successful login?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hi Eveybody,
>> >>
>> >> I have a login page built in ND as the first page of the system so
>> >> a session starts as soon as somebody hits this page, there are 2
>> >> caveats in this-
>> >> 1. The unsuccessful logins leaves a lot of orphan sessions in ND.
>> >> 2. If a user leaves his machine at login page and comes after
>> >> the time out, he/she does'nt like the idea of session getting
>> >> expired before the login.
>> >>
>> >> I think I can use CSpider.removeUserSession() for the #1 but I
>> >> need some suggestions for the #2. Is it possible to make a
>> >> login page outside of ND and that would send the form results (loginID
>> &
>> >> pwd)
>> >> to ND's security Objects on submit so that atleast accessing login
>> >> page will not start a new session.
>> >>
>> >> TIA
>> >>
>> >> Vishal
>> >>
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