Password-protected pages and public Internet stations

[Thomas McMillan Grant Bennett]

It may be possible that you can create a cgi to replace the traditional
password authentication.  I'm not sure what Perl script would be but if
it is similar enough to C it shouldn't be too difficult to implement in
either of the two  provided you are familiar with programming.  But,
there is still the possibility that the page might be brought back up
using the cache.  I have set all of our public PCs for no Disk cache and
2048 Memory cache, in communicator, which seems to be sufficient.
Aren't features wonderful??

Thomas


Charles P. Hobbs wrote:

> Recently, while developing some password-protected pages, I noticed
> that once a user has gained access to the page (by inputting a
> username/
> password to the pop-up form provided by the browser), that password
> does not need to be input again as long as the browser is still
> running
> (i.e. the user might look at some pages on anotehr site, etc., then
> come
> back to the password protected page--the browser will not ask for the
> password for that page again).
>
> In home or office situations, this is not such a big problem. But . .
> .
> what about the users of public Internet stations in a library, or some
>
> other
> public place where, typically, the browser program is left running
> all day, and users are discouraged from restartoing the program (or
> computer)?
> ----------
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Charles P. Hobbs                          __  __     ____  ___
> ___ ____
> transit at primenet.com                     /__)/__) / / / / /_  /\  /
> /_    /
>                                         /   / \  / / / / /__ /  \/
> /___  /
> -------
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------



--
;/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
;/*                                                                 */
;/*  Thomas McMillan Grant Bennett   Appalachian State University   */
;/*  bennettt at am.appstate.edu        Belk Library                   */
;/*  bennetttm at appstate.edu          Systems And Automation Team    */
;/*  bennett at wncln200.lib.unca.edu   Computer Consultant II         */
;/*  Office: 704 262 2795            Cellular: 704 266 3743         */
;/*  http://Whitewolf.library.appstate.edu                          */
;/*                                                                 */
;/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */

If it works, don't fix it!