One reason you might be having difficulty is if the remote host does the
basic authentication procedure of checking that the username/password is
being submitted from a specific host or script (in which case it will see
that you're attempting to submit the information from somewhere else and
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-Original Message-
From: Jeremy Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 4:54 PM
To: David Smith
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Authenticating through a php script
Dave,
I am
Jeremy,
LDAP authentication happens in two stages: connect and bind. The connect
stage is just establishing a connection with the LDAP server
(ldap_connect()). No username or password is necesary in this stage.
Once your connection is established, you attempt a bind (ldap_bind())to
verify a
David,
I have ldap working, my problem is the second half of my question.
The problem script workflow:
1. Authenticate on LDAP (Resolved)
2. Connect to different authenticated site for the user (Not sure where to
go now.)
My guess was to send the post information to where the form action
I haven't looked over all your code in detail, but the problem you
describe seems to be best solved using PHP Sessions. Sessions store data
between browser refreshes. You could store whether a user has been
authenticated via LDAP, and then on a subsequent page, you can reference
that information
Dave,
I am afraid I am not communicating what I am trying to do.
I have multiple databases that my library purchases. FirstSearch,
Ebscohost, etc. These company's have there own authentication systems that
I have no control over. A lot of them give user names and passwords that
can access
