Re: Apache, Oracle, Cookies and User Authentication

Martin Hepworth <maxsec_at_usa.net> wrote in message news:375E2045.68F50E02_at_usa.net...
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> Steve
> IMHO I'd use Linux instead of NT on the Server, then when you move any
> CGI scripts (easiest way to do this) you'll have less of a port to do.
> Doing cross platform development is tricky for various Unix's never mind
> NT - Unix..
>
> Martin

Thanks Martin but that's not an option. I work for a agency that's almost totally Microsoft, although our database is installed on an Alpha machine running Open VMS. Only the Web server and Oracle Reports Server are running on the NT machine.

The bulk of the work [hundreds of hours] is going into creating the report definition files, and Oracle assure us they are platform independent. The thing with the cookies/JavaScript is only a small part of the job. We already have a crude work around consisting of multiple directories using multiple .htaccess files, it's quick and dirty but not very elegant, and I'm sure there must be a better way. An alternative may be using Oracle Application Server but we've not had any experience using that, and we are hoping to keep things reasonably simple.

Eventually, a copy of the database and Oracle Reports Server will be installed outside our firewall on a Sun machine running Solaris. The Web severs will be running on someone else's machines, and will be not be maintained by us, but by an ISP. We will only be maintaining the database and Reports Server.

Steve Received on Wed Jun 09 1999 - 05:04:29 CDT