Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:43:53 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: authenticating users between websites Message-ID: <20050125194352.GK99125@seven.alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <41F65A6A.23011.281B9A2A@localhost> References: <41F65A6A.23011.281B9A2A@localhost>
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 02:40:42PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > I'm getting this request often and I'm not sure how to solve it. A > client will have two websites and wants users to be able to browse > freely between the websites after having logged into the primary > website. > > For example, I browse to a.example.org, log in, and continue > browsing. Then I browse over to b.example.org.... How can I be > automagically be authenticated on that other website? > > cheers > -- > Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ > BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ If both sites are part of the same, you can set a cookie based on the domain. That is how sites usual do it. If you are concerned about someone modifying the cookie local on the client side, keep also some information about the cookie in a database which can be accessed by both sites. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://seven.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html
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