Hey folks,
I have several questions I'm trying to figure out the answer to,
all in the pursuit of a single goal. My current most likely question,
to which I hope the answer is yes, is:
"Can I take a CGI-Post of form data to my server, record the
posted data, and then send back a header such that the browser
re-posts the data to another server?"
Current situation:
Two webservers, call them A and B.
Both webservers have the same root domain name (e.g. blah.com).
Both webservers run Netscape server with livewire, etc.
We have full access to webserver A and only enough access to
modify the HMTL and livewire (serverside javascript) on
webserver B, with a delay of days to get updates added to
pages.
User is using a browser that can do javascript 2 and full 128 bit SSL.
User comes to webserver A, browses, etc. Clicks on a link.
Webserver A redirects user's browser to Webserver B login page.
User fills out login form which is sent to server via CGI post
over a 128-bit SSL session.
We need, at a minimum, to get the login information back to
Webserver A. Sure, we could simply require users to log in twice,
once at each site, but that would mightily annoy them. A secondary
but good thing would be to move the first stage of the login process
transparently to Webserver A.
I've considered some alternative approaches, but the idea above -
redirecting the browser to repost after snagging the data - would
probably be the cleanest and easiest. Other approaches:
Put the login page on Webserver A and have the user fill it out
and submit it. Webserver A runs a proxy that essentially acts like a
client, opening a 128-bit SSL connection to Webserver B, sending the
login data, taking the response and sending it back to the user's
browser. To do the proxy part is fairly simple, but I don't know
about the 128-bit SSL connection part.
Or, alternatively, if Netscape Livewire (server-side Javascript)
can do it, have Webserver B do the same via Javascript - post the
user's login data back to Webserver A. I don't do Livewire, so I don't
know if Livewire can open connections to external servers. If it can,
I would hope that, since it's part of Netscape, the 128-bit SSL part
would be easily available.
Or, as another alternative, is it possible to build the actual
login page with client-side Javascript that simultaneously submits it
to both servers?
Steven J. Owens
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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