Part of what I am trying to work around is cookies not setting on a
redirect... as one part of what I am doing is where I am authenticating the
user and setting a sessionid cookie as part of my user tracking and
security... if I use a standard redirect the cookie vapors... right now I
am following the path of setting a url with the username as a variable (part
of what I would like to pass as a form post to keep hidden), and redirecting
the user to a new page that pulls that username from the form data and uses
it to build part of the session cookie.. that page then uses a meta-refresh
to redirect to the users page.
The users page (and all pages past that point) check to see if a
sessioncookie is set and that its coming from a valid referrer.. if either
condition is not true it redirects them back out to the login page.
A bit of a kludge fix, but without the capacity to set a cookie then do a
ns_returnredirect (which I have been assured by my code-guru and my brief
testing doesn't work) this is what I came up with to track things..
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Patrick Spence, Network Administrator
Information System Dept.
2401 South 24th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85034
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Asher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Form Posting
> At 11:02 AM 8/23/01, you wrote:
> >I want to be able to redirect the user to another url on my site, and
send
> >information to the tcl script residing at that url (register_proc) using
> >form data.. without the URL including the content of what I am sending..
so
> >I can then operate on that sent data without it being painfully clear
what
> >that data is to the average joe user... I don't want to use a database
and
> >store temporary data and refer back to that... it would make it more
complex
> >and add to the database usage in areas that don't need more of it...
>
> Try Rob's internal redirect utility, which as he says provides a tcl
> wrapper for ns_connredirect. The effect is basically a "goto" or
> "overlay". One moment you are running one script, then you internally
> redirect, and you start running your other script. What's most fun is
that
> all your tcl variables are still there with the same values. So you need
> not post at all.
>
> I've used this for exactly the purpose you've given.
>
> rob's utilities: http://www.dqd.com/~mayoff/aolserver/#dqd_utils
> ns_connredirect doc: http://www.aolserver.com/docs/cdev/c-ch90.htm#576649
>
>
> Jerry
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