26 Feb
2002
26 Feb
'02
7:05 a.m.
"DM" == Damien Morton <dm-temp-310102@nyc.rr.com> writes:
DM> You could always use Basic Authentication, with authentication
DM> being done by the cgi scripts against the membership list
DM> (emailaddress,password) rather than the webserver. As far as I
DM> can tell, this operates somewhat like a cookie in that
DM> identifying information is handed to the server on every
DM> request.
Yeah, except that AFAICT, basic auth is broken in that you can't re-authenticate yourself or un-authenticate yourself. I.e. you need to do `Logout', especially when you're debugging the admin interfaces. ;)
I could be totally off base though.
-Barry