Re: Authentication using https

2004-11-12 Thread David Nicol
while you're at it you might take a look at the kerberos-like AIS infrastructure, which does not at this time use apache extensions at all but which provides passwordless e-mail-based SSO over an arbitrarily wide domain. -- David L Nicol "It's what God and Dwight Eisenhower intended, and it's w

Re: Authentication using https

2004-11-12 Thread Martin Moss
Cheers Fellas, this was the bit I was concerned about. Apache::AuthCookie, looked a little bloated to me, however I'm a big fan of only inventying new types of wheels not old so I'll revisit... Regards Marty --- Michael J Schout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Skylos wrote:

Re: Authentication using https

2004-11-10 Thread Michael J Schout
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Skylos wrote: it could go... -> GET content from myserver port 80 <- 403 errordocument login form -> POST credentials to myserver port 443 <- Location http://myserver/content <- Set-Cookie: ticket=gooduser; Domain=myserver; Path=content; -> GET content from myserver port 80 <-

Re: Authentication using https

2004-11-10 Thread Skylos
Michael, I'm sorry but I don't believe that is correct. Having recently implimented a Apache::AuthCookie system, I can see a possible issue with this strategy. Please feel free to enlighten me if I am full of shit. First of all, there's nothing stopping you from submitting your login form to an

Re: Authentication using https

2004-11-10 Thread John Wittkoski
Michael wrote on 11/10/04, 4:28 PM: > > All, > > > > I'm about to replace the authentication mechanism that > > our web site uses. However I wanted to sanity check my > > thought process. > > > > Is it possible to have an Authen handler sitting on > > certain areas of a site, and if a us

Re: Authentication using https

2004-11-10 Thread Michael
> All, > > I'm about to replace the authentication mechanism that > our web site uses. However I wanted to sanity check my > thought process. > > Is it possible to have an Authen handler sitting on > certain areas of a site, and if a user isn't logged in > (i.e. doesn't have an auth session cook