Re: Oracle Webserver Authentication

Basically all comes out to sending a 401 error to the browser indicating you request basic authentication (see the http RFC for details). Now depending on the webserver and language you use there are several ways to accomplish this:
- with IIS it is sufficient to restrict access to html pages to certain users (as opposed to everyone)
- so (provided you have any static html pages) you could attempt the same thing

Don't worry, you only need this on one startup page, the browser will keep sending credentials with each and every request to your domain after the first 401.

Hope this helps

Andreas

xshake6078_at_my-dejanews.com wrote in message <6scfsk$8h2$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>Hello,
>
>I have written a webapplication in pl/sql and I have to know which user is
>accessing the webapplication.
>
>Moreover in our intranet is a Netscape Fasttrack Server which also work as
an
>authentication server. This means, if a user wants to use a webapplication
of
>the fasttrack server he has to fill out his login and password (401 http
>header).
>
>Now I want to use this authentication part for the oracle webserver, but I
>don't have access to the user/pwd database and we have more than 3000
>users.....
>
>I have a few ideas to solve this problem....
>
>1. Using the netscape Fasttrack server as a listener on the oracle
webserver.
>But how?
>
>2. Creating a dummy CGI application on the fastrack server, which sends
after
>the authentication the REMOTE_USER to my oracle webserver.
>
>Does anybody has a idea how I can use the authentication from the Netscape
>Webserver for my Oracle Webserver?
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Stefan
>
>PS: I use the Oracle Webserver 2.1
>
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Received on Tue Sep 01 1998 - 04:50:57 CDT