[Lispweb] How to do this simple php trick with araneida?

Jonathon McKitrick jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org
Thu May 11 11:32:58 CDT 2006


On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 08:33:33AM -0700, Richard Newman wrote:
: If all you're wanting to do is control access to resources, but make  
: someone login only once in a given period, you should store some  
: hashed value in a cookie. Compare this hashed value to some values  
: stored on the server to decide if someone is authenticated.
: 
: A session is a much heavier-weight concept than merely providing an  
: authentication cookie.

Right now I'm using WWW-Authenticate because of those cache issues I told you
about before.  I never did get those satisfactorily resolved.  Is there a
disadvantage to doing it that way, rather than just using an html form?


Jonathon McKitrick
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