We use a simple login form on our members page that is hosted on a separate
server than our IMail server is on. We simply use :
<form method="POST" action="http://imail.ourserver.net/login.cgi">
as the form command, and call the login and pw fields the same name as on
the login.cgi page. This works great.
These servers are within the same NT Network Domain, so, not being a network
specialist, I do not know if this has anything to do with it or not....
Randy Armbrecht
Global Web Solutions, Inc.
(804) 346-5300
(877) 800-GLOBAL
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Cocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 11:42 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] imail login form
> Imail's web thingy uses 2 types of cgi. Any html include files have to
have
> the .cgi as an extension or the html isn't parsed. The other cgi such as
> login.cgi are internals from the Imail web server.
>
> Unfortunatly there is no way to access this cgi from outside the imail
> server. The only way I've found that works is to pass the user id and
> password to the existing login.html . Modify the template file so that it
> acts as a redirect.
>
> The next glitch is that due to the port difference you can't just use
> cookies as Netscape regards www.xyz.com and www.xyz.com:8383 as separate
> domains and won't pass the cookie. Lastly the Imail server can't handle
the
> post or get method from outside its own server.
> You have to manually build the url string and do a "document.location = "
> from the outside and then strip the name and password from the querystring
> on the Imail side.
>
>
> If you aren't comfortable with Javascript mail me off list and I'll send
you
> the code snippets to handle this.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sumit Rishi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 10:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [IMail Forum] imail login form
>
>
> Hi all
> We have recently installed imail server 6.0 on our server. My site is an
asp
>
> based site - I use ezsignup for auto-registering for users. Now I want
that
> once a user has logged into my site - he need not login again to imail
login
>
> form - i guess for this i will have to make changes in login.cgi - but i
am
> not able to find any cgi files on the server - i wonder how it is
working???
>
> can anyone help please?
> sumit
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