Re: Confused about security on WebServer Apps

On Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:16:00 +0800, Stephen Mollica <smollica_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

>I am about to start developing an Oracle WebServer 2.1.1 application and
>would like to know what security measures/encryption measures are built
>into the product, or if there are none, how I can add some security to
>the application.
>
>I have read that WebServer does not allow the use of the Secured Socket
>Layer when using the PL*SQL cartridge. Is this still the case or has
>Oracle fixed this problem?. And if they have, how does the SSL relate
>to Web applications? Also WebServer is supposed to be able to use the
>RSA encryption engine. If so how does this work, as well?
>

For Web server 2.1 we had no problems using Netscape as the listener and setting up an ssl for that. We also created our own security package. This allowed a user to login and after that every procedure called would start with a function call to the security area to see if that user was valid using Cookies not the best but you work with what ya got. Received on Mon Jan 12 1998 - 00:00:00 CST