[Zope] Has anyone tried authentication accross multipleservers?

Paulo Eduardo Neves neves@inf.puc-rio.br
Fri, 09 Apr 1999 22:18:42 -0300


"Phillip J. Eby" wrote:
> 
> At 11:29 AM 4/8/99 +1000, Jay, Dylan wrote:
> >I need this for a website I'm setting up so that users can download from
> >several different locations around the world. I don't want users to have to
> >type in their password twice. I presume there is no way to do this via basic
> >authentication which leaves cookies. Has anyone tried this?
> >
> 
> I'm in the midst of figuring out how to do authentication with cookies.
> The only way I can see to get ZPublisher to work intelligently with cookies
> is to hack the "unauthorized" method of the ModulePublisher class so that a
> login page can be called.
> 
> One caveat for your project: cookies will only work across servers if the
> servers share a common domain, e.g.: foo.bar.com and baz.bar.com.

Just to remember: you have to set the 'domain' atribbute in the cookies
as "bar.com".

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