Webservice Session Authentication

2006-09-20 Thread Greg Luce
OK, this has kicked my butt for 2 days now. I have a CF application (SSL) with a certain report a client wants to serve up inside their C#.NET app frameset. They have credentials they can provide. I've been trying to use a webservice to authenticate these credentials (username/pw) and if good

Re: Webservice Session Authentication

2006-09-20 Thread Jim
1) an idea: they send their credentials to you ws if okay, you generate a really long (say, 256 characters) random string you update their user record, and put that string into a field e.g. authkey you send that string back to them they then send that string to the report for auth, which

Re: Webservice Session Authentication

2006-09-20 Thread Greg Luce
OK, are you saying just sending their credentials via url over SSL is best? On 9/20/06, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) an idea: they send their credentials to you ws if okay, you generate a really long (say, 256 characters) random string you update their user record, and put that string

Re: Webservice Session Authentication

2006-09-20 Thread Greg Luce
Maybe I'm way off base trying to authenticate the user and start the session via webservice. If the SSL is enough with an encrypted url var that would make my life alot easier! I'm open to any ideas! Greg On 9/20/06, Greg Luce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, are you saying just sending their

Re: Webservice Session Authentication

2006-09-20 Thread Denny Valliant
On 9/20/06, Greg Luce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm way off base trying to authenticate the user and start the session via webservice. If the SSL is enough with an encrypted url var that would make my life alot easier! That's pretty much how it all works anyways, right folks? Maybe