Re: Passing cgi parameters from external script

Whats wrong with the standard web-server's authentication / authorization way of handling log-in? If you manage your log-in names well, you can use these as some form of sessionID (unless you expect the same user to open several different sessions at the same time).

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

Comment on Re: Passing cgi parameters from external script

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: Passing cgi parameters from external script by shaolindoman (Acolyte) on Jun 29, 2004 at 22:08 UTC
Right now I don't have a web server to run my site from. I'm doing the site at home for a small business (my first venture into this sort of thing) and I'm just running it off my local host. Therefore, when I finish I plan to then start looking for web-server's to host the site and scripts. So I'm not sure there is any way I could use the standard web-server's authentication / authorization way of handling log-in without knowing where and how my site will be hosted. Unless there is a standard they all use. I know I will have to use a Windows server because the site makes extensive use of MS access which is what the business I am doing this for uses. But I'm not sure how to take advantage of things in terms of the server. All I know is what I have been working with in terms of perl/cgi stuff. Any suggestions for reading on an intro to this sort of thing?	[reply]
Re^3: Passing cgi parameters from external script by CountZero (Bishop) on Jun 30, 2004 at 19:44 UTC
Sorry, Microsoft Windows web-servers are terra incognita for me. I run Apache servers on Windows systems and there is no reason why they couldn't access MS Access (other than that MS Access is not very multi-user friendly and it hardly warants to be called a database-server (it is more a glorified graphical front-end to their Jet-engine)). But I would really hesitate to use MS Access databases on a web-server, given that there are so many fine free database-servers available. As much will depend on what server you run your scripts on, I advise you to first start looking for a host before committing too much to a certain design as much may need to be re-written if the host does not support some (or all) of your requirements. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]
Re^4: Passing cgi parameters from external script by shaolindoman (Acolyte) on Jul 01, 2004 at 14:22 UTC
Any suggestions on good host that support cgi, will allow me to access as MS access database, and support SSL? I havn't looked around much yet but I was just wandering if there were any really good ones everyone suggests. Thanks.	[reply]