[htmltmpl] Perl CGI authentication and session management

2003-10-15 Thread David Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thilo Planz wrote: > Everything you send or receive via https is encryted. > This even includes the HTTP headers, which is why name-based virtual > hosting does not work with https. Thanks for your reply. :-) Okay. > Depending on how paranoid you are you can also set the "se

Re: [htmltmpl] Perl CGI authentication and session management

2003-10-15 Thread Puneet Kishor
On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 02:49 AM, David Christensen wrote: .. 1.) Establish an SSL connection 2.) Require the user to indentify himself (username and password) 3.) Check against some kind of user database 4.) Create a unique session ID number which can not easily guessed by other

Re: [htmltmpl] Perl CGI authentication and session management

2003-10-15 Thread David Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bär, Sebastian wrote: > Most session tracking software use the same approach: Thanks for the reply. :-) > 1.) Establish an SSL connection > 2.) Require the user to indentify himself (username and password) > 3.) Check against some kind of user database > 4.) Create a unique

Re: [htmltmpl] Perl CGI authentication and session management

2003-10-15 Thread "Bär, Sebastian"
Hi David. Most session tracking software use the same approach: 1.) Establish an SSL connection 2.) Require the user to indentify himself (username and password) 3.) Check against some kind of user database 4.) Create a unique session ID number which can not easily guessed by others 5.) Store

[htmltmpl] Perl CGI authentication and session management

2003-10-14 Thread David Christensen
hello, world! I'm working on an e-commerce site using Apache 1.3.26, Perl 5.6, CGI::Application, HTML::Template, and CGI::FormBuilder. I need to provide secure user login/logout, profiles, financial pages, etc.. For starters, I plan to use https for sensitive pages. After that, I'm not sure whi