Re: [Tutor] mod_python authentication

2009-12-08 Thread Alan Plum
On Mo, 2009-12-07 at 23:10 -0500, Marc wrote: > While I agree with the cookie (as long as it has a short expiration), > another way to do this is by using expiring tokenization (credentials+ some > unique data for the transaction) in the URL header (see section 14.8 at > http://www.w3.org/Protocol

Re: [Tutor] mod_python authentication

2009-12-07 Thread Marc
> On Mo, 2009-12-07 at 09:35 -0400, Rayon wrote: > > How do I Check for an active login session on every page that > requires > > authentication > > > To understand sessions you first need to understand that HTTP is a > stateless protocol: you connect, send your request, receive a response > and th

Re: [Tutor] mod_python authentication

2009-12-07 Thread aivars
Alan, I am very impressed! This one goes to my knowledge base. Thanks a lot. 2009/12/7 Alan Plum : > On Mo, 2009-12-07 at 09:35 -0400, Rayon wrote: >> How do I Check for an active login session on every page that requires >> authentication >> >> Been at this for days and it’s holding me back can s

Re: [Tutor] mod_python authentication

2009-12-07 Thread Alan Plum
On Mo, 2009-12-07 at 09:35 -0400, Rayon wrote: > How do I Check for an active login session on every page that requires > authentication > > Been at this for days and it’s holding me back can someone plz help > me with some code examples. To understand sessions you first need to understand that

Re: [Tutor] mod_python authentication

2009-12-05 Thread Benno Lang
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Rayon wrote: > I need to  setup a login page for a web application but I am not finding any > code in the mod_python doc that shows me how to do this. > > What is need is the code to tell apache to get this login data from a login > page. If you want Apache to dire