On Tuesday 06 Nov 2007, Alex Birch wrote: > 1) retrieve the users login/domain name from their computer. It's similar > to GetUserName from the Microsoft Languages.
You can't. Do you really want Joe Random web site reading stuff like that off your machine ? If you have IIS (or Apache, apparently), you might be able to set a directory to 'intergrated' authentication, and look in the CGI environment variables. Depends on your server. > 2) have a secure login (read: username and password not passing in plain > text through a corporate intranet.) Look at session tokens, and running the whole thing over SSL. A session token is sent back as a result of a user/name password challenge, and must be presented to all other methods. Tokens time out to prevent replay attacks, and there are a few other niggles. Your server might already do this for you. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to evangelistically lead extensible technologies on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
