Scott: Excellent ideas for the server mechanics. I would also add user notification of some type (UI) when it's doing this check, wait cycle. I think perceptions of web apps are wrong in many cases as to why something is delayed. Telling the user that authentication is pending is a good thing. I'm just waiting to get in. Once, I'm in, everything's good. I can understand why I have to wait for the fine restaurant experience e.g.
David On 10/21/08, Scott Battaglia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > Does anyone have an opinion on the usage of AJAX for our front end? Two good > examples: > > 1. When you submit credentials via the login form, the request is put in and > then you are disconnected from the system and it checks back a short period > later. This can be scaled for load (i.e. under heavy load, the disconnect > is longer before checking, and under light load, very short). > > 2. When logging out of the CAS system, initiate the request and then > disconnected while the logout commences so that we don't tie up threads > waiting for services to log out. > > -Scott > > -Scott Battaglia > PGP Public Key Id: 0x383733AA > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottbattaglia > > _______________________________________________ > cas-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://tp.its.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/cas-dev > > _______________________________________________ cas-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tp.its.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/cas-dev
