Re: HTTP authentication based sessioning with logout ability

2000-12-19 Thread George Sanderson
At 06:28 PM 12/19/00 +, you wrote: >Hi there. > >I've been trying to write a system to perform authentication using the www-authenticate (http authenatication) method. However, I need a client visiting the page and having been authenticated to be able to logout and have their browser forget th

Re: HTTP authentication based sessioning with logout ability

2000-12-19 Thread Darren Duncan
I have also been doing problem solving related to session handling and I will briefly share my ideas for a solution. What I am about to say is just the logic or protocol behind my solution without getting into implementation details. I don't know if it'll help you, but here goes: Essentially I

Re: HTTP authentication based sessioning with logout ability

2000-12-19 Thread Rob Tanner
I would think that non-persistent cookies would be the ticket. Certainly dynamic realms would accomplish what you want, but really all your doing is using the realm like a cookie. Cookies have a number of advantages. For one thing, they're reasonably straight forward to manage. Secondly, yo

RE: HTTP authentication based sessioning with logout ability

2000-12-19 Thread Geoffrey Young
> -Original Message- > From: G.W. Haywood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: HTTP authentication based sessioning with logout ability > > > Hi there, >

Re: HTTP authentication based sessioning with logout ability

2000-12-19 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Reams and reams of stuff snipped, without apology] > Basically I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction > for what to try next. http://perl.apache.org/guide [more reams snipped] > I know it's bad of me to resort to a m