"BasicAuth" access protection is really simple, and in its simplicity, it fails for serious apps because:
- There's no clean way to "log out", as you noticed.
- The passwords are transmitted in the clear
on each hit.
- There's no "timeout": if you forget to log out when
you walk away, the next user can use your credentials.
One better solution is to use a cookie (or some other session tracking solution, like hidden fields, mangled URLs, or mangled hostnames), with a server-side database to handle the login authentication and timeout. I have an example of this
in
one of my columns. It's really only a few dozen lines of code. I think someone even wrapped it into a module, if I recall.
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
Please read these before you post! —
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
- a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
| |
For: |
|
Use: |
| & | | & |
| < | | < |
| > | | > |
| [ | | [ |
| ] | | ] |
Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.