Re: [cgiapp] Re: Sessions and Best Practices

[Sean Davis <suppressed>]

On 8/25/05 1:31 PM, "Will" <suppressed> wrote:

> Sean Davis wrote:
>> On 8/15/05 9:36 AM, "Will" <suppressed> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> I've been playing around with CGIA and I really like what I see. I've
>>> got some very simple apps under my belt, but now I'd like to build
>>> something more robust. I will need to authenticate users and keep track
>>> of them through my app ( and possibly other cgi-apps ).
>>> 
>>> It's been quite some time since I've had to deal with sessions, and at
>>> the time I rolled my own version before I really knew what sessions
>>> were. Is there some sort of standardization, or best practices when it
>>> comes to sessions and cgi-app specifically?
>> 
>> 
>> Have you seen:
>> 
>> http://search.cpan.org/~ceeshek/CGI-Application-Plugin-Session-0.08/lib/CGI/
>> Application/Plugin/Session.pm
>> 
>> And here:
>> 
>> http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/cgi-bin/cgi-app/index.cgi?LoginLogoutExampleApp
>> 
>> Hope these help,
>> 
>> Sean
>> 
>> 
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> 
> If someone clicks a link to app.pl?rm=edit and their session has
> expired, is there a way to redirect them to rm=edit after they log in?
> ( as opposed to them seeing the default rm after logging in)
> 
> I'm just trying to wrap my head around all this stuff before doing any
> coding.

Yep, but you need to store the "desired" run_mode in a hidden field on your
login page.  If you have something in pre-run that checks for "logged in",
if a person isn't logged in and wants to get to rm edit, then you can just
put a hidden field on your login page that is something like 'desired=edit'.
Then, when you process the login, if the desired field is set, just redirect
to that run mode.  Make sense?

Sean


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