Re: Web authentication: some general questions

Hi Alex,
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 Fri Nov 05 2004 - 15:23:44 CST