Re: Web authentication: some general questions

Hi Pedro,

thanks for taking time to reply.

I'll surely have a look at HTMLDB.

My main concern with this kind of products is that often they don't leave the developer *complete* freedom to design the user interface (which is a must for us). Portal, for example, always draws its own <TABLE>s around the objects (to my knowledge, of course): is HTMLDB different in your experience? Can this product render a dynamic page *exactly* equal to a static HTML page built in dreamweaver (with div, graphics, css, etc.)?

Regards.

Alessandro

> Have you eard of HTMLDB ?
> take a look at htmldb.oracle.com.
>
> It's available for free for 10g and 9i with your database, and you
> don't have to reinvent the wheel.
>
> Take a look at it. This is a great tool to build web apps.
> Also provides authentication (database, HTMLDB, or in a table.. and
> also with some components of iAS if you have one)
>
> Also keeps session state, have a debugger.
>
> You must really take a look at this. After that if this doesn't fit
> your requirements... go ahead.
>
> more info here
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/htmldb/index.html
>
>
> bye,
> Plopes.
>
> Alex NSB wrote:
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I'm building a web app using Oracle 10g (NOT AS) and PL/SQL. It's
>> fairly simple: a few packages producing web forms and pages
>> writing/reading data to/from my tables.
>>
>> I'm trying now to figure out what are my options for managing
>> authenticated access to some of my procedures.
>>
>> I'd like to use db authentication (Oracle username/password), but
>> I've never done this before: I browsed the Internet and the docs but
>> couldn't clear up my mind.
>>
>> My questions are:
>>
>> 1) can I do db authentication without iAS?
>>
>> 2) do you recommend using SSL (and, if so, can I do that without
>> iAS)?
>>
>> 3) what are the recommended techniques to keep session state from
>> page to page? (I was thinking about a session cookie coupled with a
>> session table on the db... Not sure if this is the correct approach:
>> any pointer to a white paper or something?)
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any advice and assistance you will provide.
>>
>> Alessandro
Received on Sat Nov 06 2004 - 04:14:45 CST