Re: Users and session ids

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You've got to have some kind of "middleware". Apache, custom, whatever.
Basically this piece of middleware gets the session key.
Have the middleware (using a common login) retrieve the ser (and password)
drom the database table and authenticate the user.

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 01:55 am, C G wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I wonder if anyone can advise me with this problem.
>
> 1. A user logs into the database (through web, webservice, some other piece
> of software) - connect(user="joe",passwd="blogs")
> 2. We generate a random session key which will expire in 1 hour. Put this
> in table (user, SessKey, time).
> 3. Give key to user.
> 4. User wants to do something else, so passes us the session key.
> 5. How do we use this session key to log the user into the database, i.e.
> how do we get the username and passwd to enable:
> connect(user="joe",passwd="blogs").
>
> Many thanks
>
> Colin
>
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