Agree with the consensus. The URI should be descriptive of the
function, so any requests to /login should be from users who are
attempting to... login. The home page should be housed under a separate
URL (/home for example)
After the user has authenticated, the login module should redirect to
the /home URI. Any links to the home page from within the application
should likewise refer to /home. You should have security in place to
redirect any unauthenticated users to /login before requests for /home
(or any other part of your application) are processed.
If you for some reason simply MUST keep referring people to /login when
they are expecting to see the home page, put code in your login module
to check for authenticated users and redirect them to /home before
displaying the login page. If the user doesn't have a session, then go
ahead and display the login form.
On 11-07-11 03:14 PM, Jerry Pereira wrote:
Hi Edward,
I have the following design:
A single PerlResponseHandler for all requests. This handler based on
the path decides the action to be taken
For example, if the user submits to www.example.com/login
<http://www.example.com/login>, then the handler delegates the request
to authentication module, which will then either display the home page
(throug home page template) or login page again, based on the
success/failure of authentication mechanism. Since i am rendering the
page via template, i am able to generate the content of home page
which i then send back to the client, but the URL on the browser
remails the same (i.e. www.example.com/login
<http://www.example.com/login>), which is not true. Any suggestions to
handle this scenario will be great.
Thanks,
Jerry
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Szekeres, Edward
<edward.szeke...@perkinelmer.com
<mailto:edward.szeke...@perkinelmer.com>> wrote:
If you are looking to do this for “cosmetic reasons”, I do this be
simply using frame sets and doing redirects in the child frame.
The URL displayed in the location bar will always be constant for
the parent frame. I don’t think there is any way to do this at
the core level or it would be a spoofers windfall. The browser
will always have the actual location in the info panel.
*From:*Jerry Pereira [mailto:online.je...@gmail.com
<mailto:online.je...@gmail.com>]
*Sent:* Monday, July 11, 2011 2:48 PM
*To:* modperl@perl.apache.org <mailto:modperl@perl.apache.org>
*Subject:* Changing browser URL based on condition
Hi All,
I would like to know if there is a way to change the URL displayed on
browser without using Redirect option. The URL visible on client
browser
must be based on some condition that is evaluated in my mod_perl
handler.
For example -
1. User types the URL - www.example.com <http://www.example.com/>,
this will display the login page.
2. Once the user enters the credentials and hits submit, the
request is
posted to www.example.com/login <http://www.example.com/login> action.
3. If the credentials entered by the user is valid then i would
like to show
the home page..uri
4. I am able to show the homw page, but the URL does not change to
www.example.com/home <http://www.example.com/home>, instead it
remains the same (i.e.
www.example.com/login <http://www.example.com/login>). I am using
Template toolkit to render my pages. I
tried $req->url('/home'), but that does not change the browser URI.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jerry
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