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Re: Posting and redirecting to remote script [message #173289 is a reply to message #173287]

Fri, 01 April 2011 18:36

Captain Paralytic
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On Apr 1, 7:20 pm, Toxalot <toxa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My client has a subscribers only area which is written in PHP. Login
> is through a form and sessions are tracked with cookies.
>
> One of the client's subscribers has their own members only website.
> The subscriber wants all their members to be able to access my
> client's subscribers only area without having to provide a username
> and password. The simplest way would be for the subscriber to put a
> form button on their site that has the login info in hidden fields.
> But that means any of their members could get the login details by
> viewing the source. I don't know how savvy their members are, but I
> don't like security through obscurity.
>
> I had hoped to create a simple little script that the subscriber could
> install that would post directly to my client's script and end up on
> the client's site. But so far, it hasn't been as simple as I'd hoped.
> All methods of posting to remote script keep the user on the same
> site.
>
> Any suggestions on how to handle this?

The script could post the necessary login to your client's site and
get a one time token returned. It could use this on a header location
redirect to move the user to the other site. The other site would use
the one time token to log them in and place the necessary cookie.

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		Posting and redirecting to remote script By: Toxalot on Fri, 01 April 2011 18:20
		Re: Posting and redirecting to remote script By: Captain Paralytic on Fri, 01 April 2011 18:36
		Re: Posting and redirecting to remote script By: Toxalot on Fri, 01 April 2011 19:54
		Re: Posting and redirecting to remote script By: Captain Paralytic on Fri, 01 April 2011 20:24
		Re: Posting and redirecting to remote script By: Twayne on Fri, 01 April 2011 23:02
		Re: Posting and redirecting to remote script By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 01 April 2011 23:30
		Re: Posting and redirecting to remote script By: Toxalot on Sat, 02 April 2011 12:35
		Re: Posting and redirecting to remote script By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 02 April 2011 12:44

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