Re: Session woes -Anyone Please help.????

2000-08-07 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Jitesh Kumar wrote: > All I want is to store the generated key in the session variable so > that I could retrieve the same on the subsequent page user visits for > authentication purpose. I can't rely on client side cookies as they > are not full proof. If you don't want to us

Re: Session woes -Anyone Please help.????

2000-08-07 Thread j e f f__s a e n z
You could also pass it as the path_info for the url if you wanted to make it somewhat more discrete. The eagle book also has a good section on session ids. Nigel Hamilton wrote: > HI Jitesh, > > I do exactly the same thing ... but I pass session variables using a >combination of metho

Re: Session woes -Anyone Please help.????

2000-08-06 Thread Nigel Hamilton
HI Jitesh, I do exactly the same thing ... but I pass session variables using a combination of methods. Inserting a hidden field into subsequent pages: Or you could append the sessionid to a URL: http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/yourcgi

Session woes -Anyone Please help.????

2000-08-06 Thread Jitesh Kumar
Hi, I have a login form where the visitor enters the UserID and Password. After authenticating from the database, I generate a unique key (some encrypted text) for every user. All I want is to store the generated key in the session variable so that I could retrieve the same on the subsequent pag