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#32 Cookie based authentication

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Gabriele Bartolini
htdig (31)
5
2002-01-04
2001-08-07
Chris Searle
No

More and more sites that I work on have started having private areas for members. These used to be basic-auth type sites, and for these, ht://Dig was great - just specify a user and off you go.

However, more and more I find that the sites are asking me to switch them over to a cookie based system - (usually based on the mod_perl Ticket code) - this redirects to a login page on first protected page hit, and issues a cookie including an md5 hash. After that, as long as the cookie is present, you just carry on.

So, at the moment, can't see how to use ht://Dig with such protected areas - would love to see some ability to handle this kind of stuff - for me, it's getting more and more important each week :-)

Discussion

  • Geoff Hutchison

    Geoff Hutchison - 2002-01-04

    Logged In: YES
    user_id=21420

    Cookies are supported in current snapshots of 3.2.0b4.

     

  • Geoff Hutchison

    Geoff Hutchison - 2002-01-04
    • labels: --> htdig
    • assigned_to: nobody --> angusgb
    • status: open --> closed
     

  • Chris Searle

    Chris Searle - 2002-01-07

    Logged In: YES
    user_id=50099

    Thanks for the info. I've dug a bit in the code, and can see
    where it sends cookies to the server, and where it stores
    any cookies sent by the server, but I can't see where I can
    set a cookie in config, or how to specify a URL to get a
    cookie for a given site (e.g. site http://www.site.com, gets
    cookie from http://login.site.com?user=user&pass=pass\).
    Either would do. Any hints?

    Thanks again

     

  • Kylie Chan

    Kylie Chan - 2002-01-25

    Logged In: YES
    user_id=310380

    Yes same problem here. I need htdig to access some cookie
    restricted area. How can I set cookies? Any help is
    greatly appreciated!

     

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