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Thanks Dave. We can have the info persisted
in a Session or in our profile table and use the technique you described.
We actually would set it up to be an SSL page so that the user info doesn't go
out as plain text over the wire. A co worker just pointed out that the
back button will be screwed up but he has a work around.
Thanks again for the help.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 1:13
PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Login
Kinda. You could write a server-side script (mine's
in ASP) that puts these variables in a form that submits itself via javascript
using the onpageload event. This script would run only for authentcated
clients who have logged in using your "regular" login script. Technically, the
password is submitted in clear text, but it's REAL hard to get at as the form
is submitted when the page is loaded and before it is rendered on the
browser.
I
haven't tried logging via a POST from the server and then streaming the output
to the client. It's doable but it's a pain. The only thing you would have to
check is whether Web Messaging uses cookies. I don't think it does, but I have
no idea how that might complicate the issue.
I'm not sure that this would be acceptable
because we have some imposed security requirements. Wouldn't this put
the UserName and Password in plain text for anyone to see. Any more
thoughts would be appreciated.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 11:41
AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum]
Login
Mike,
Someone asked that question here yesterday. Here
was my answer:
Check out our sample form code
at http://hksi.net/imail-login.htm.
To make it "automatic", change the
userid and passwd fields to
type="hidden", then fill their values with ASP code, probably
something like
value="<%=UserName%>" and value="<%=Password%>". Then, all the
user has to do is click the Submit
button (or a link that triggers a
JavaScript form submission), and they'll be logged right
in.
Also,
there is no API into the heart of IMail. But we can still dream...
:)
Hope this helps,
Ron
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We are evaluating whether to purchase the
IMail package. We have a need for a common login area that
provides access to several resources. Email is one of
them.
We want the user to be able to login once
and have access to any of the resources without having to login
again.(The resources will be on different servers).
After a quick tour of the product I was not
able to find any exposure of the API other than through the tags and
templates. Is there an interface that can be accessed
programatically. Or is there another way to credential a user
outside the provided Login.cgi, and have that information forwarded to
the mail system for authentication.
Any help provided will be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
Kowalski
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