I'm running a web application in JBoss AS 5. I also have a servlet filter which intercepts all the requests to the server. Now, I want to redirect the users to the login page, if the session has expired. I need to do this 'isSessionExpired()' check in the filter and need to redirect the user accordingly. How do I do it? Edit: I'm setti...
I want to use the regular login system in an ASP.NET app, but I want to use the user's email address as their user name (as is common in many web sites.) However, there seems to be no property or attribute to allow me to do something like this; user name and email address always seem to be separate. Is it possible to do this or is some c...
I have a website built with ASP.NET (3.5) and want add some level of security into it. I am using the login controls to help with this. I have one issue though. I have within my web.config the following. <authorization> <deny users="?"/> </authorization> This work fine when a user has not logged in before (ie. if they goto ...
I've noticed that Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and Ebay all have their login boxes on the right. Amazon's is on the left, though. Does anyone know why the right side seems to be the 'right' way to go? ...
I am writing a login page for my site. I was thinking, would generating a random 64bit number and store it in the DB along with a httpOnly cookie be a good way to store the data? then every time a user receives a page (theres a toolbar which says how many new msg he has) to check if the random cookie matches the random cookie + userId in...
I want to create a website that the login system shouldn't be handled by cookies, but on (a) table(s) in the local (on the server) SQL DB. Is there a way to do it? Even no partial way? What and where should I save instead of the cookie??? ...
How to login without leaving RP by showing the OP login window in iframe ? I am using Openid Provider for the login in my Website. how to implement the login window inside the iframe. ...
I have an ASP.Net website with multiple roles, each with access to a separate directory (i.e. admin users can access /admin, shoppers can access /shop etc), using a shared login page. If someone visits the login page with the return URL set to a directory they do not have access to (e.g. a shopper visits /login.aspx?returnurl=/admin/ind...
check it out: http://www.chillitickets.com/CustomerOffer.aspx Using Facebook as an example: Is the Facebook logo enough for it to be considered legit/safe login or is a full redirect to Facebook required? I know Facebook is trying to push Facebook Connect, but I'm not sure if they still allow this kind of thing or if it's something th...
I'm having a very confusing error between SharePoint and SQL Server 2k5. My SQL Server acting as backend to my MOSS farm has several logins in it which correspond to the web front end servers in my farm, with the pattern: {my-domain}{my-machine}$ Now, those accounts do not exist in AD anywhere, despite the login name syntax, and wer...
Hey guys, I'm trying to log into Meta-SO with my open-id that i use with SO, but it doesn't seem to be taking. I get redirected back to Meta-SO and it doesn't log me in. Is anyone else having this problem or am I just crazy? I'm using myopenid.com as my provider, coming from a redirect off of my website. I fully expect this question...
I am trying to update a VBScript (very little experience with this, I do a lot of VB.NET), that reads an FTP directory and moves certain files to a new local directory on a daily basis. I have old code that works on an FTP site that uses anonymous logins, but I now need it to access an FTP site that requires username and password. Here...
Is it possible to replace the Mac OS X login window, /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app, with a custom login window application? (See my rational for doing so.) I'm afraid my Cocoa programming skills are rudimentary. I do find it interesting that, when I run probe CGSession (which is a undocumented utility that performs fast...
If a user navigates to my webpage how can I programmatically determine they are accessing my page from within the Intranet? (Not interested in NTLM or Windows forms authentication. Need a programmatic method.) ...
Hello, I'm starting in the Rails world and i want to know how to put an login system like that here in Stack Overflow uses. Thanks, and remember that i'm starting, and if you can post a link to a very good tutorial, is very nice. ...
Hi, I have installed a Login control in ASP.NET/C# in login.aspx and after the user has logged in, it takes him to the member.aspx page. All works perfectly fine but what should I do if I want to query a database for some user-specific data? How would I do that? ASPNETDB.MDF is the database, I have created another table with some addit...
Hey guys, for the page I am doing needs a login authentication using Twitter (using tweetphp API). For test purposes I used this code below to do a successful login: if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])){ header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Enter your Twitter username and password:"'); header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized'); echo ...
Hi all, I am using form base authentication in my Sharepoint site. On my login page there are custom fields to be filled by unauthenticated user. These fields i want to add in to my list. I am using following code to insert record in list. protected void AddVendor(object sender, EventArgs e) { string strList = "http://comp01:5353/Li...
Recently i read an article is about prevent brute-force attack. It said that automatically disabling user accounts is a poor security mechanism to fight a dictionary attack. In the first place, If an attacker can disable an account by incorrectly guessing its password three times every 30 minutes, he can effectively prevent that user fro...
Hi, I'm looking for some help understanding how to generate pages from a database to create a catalog of items, each with different URLs. All I can seem to find through google are products that will do this for me, or full e-commerce solutions. I don't want a shopping cart! Just an inventory. Also, perhaps someone could recommend their ...