Re: Extension methods & XMLHttpRequest

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote:

> Could not this be done via Digest Auth if browsers provided an API
> (understand via accessiblity from Javascript) allowing web app developers
> to nicely integrate the login/password fields in their page instead of
> that ugly popup all browsers use?

I've forgotten ... did digest authentication end up solving the logoff
issue? There have been two classic issues related to using cookie/urlfield
based authentication:

  a.  Having a decent dialog which the end user can relate to, can
      include "forgot your password", etc.
  b.  Support of user logoff
an additional feature which can be implemented is periodic
re-authentication.

Received on Monday, 12 June 2006 17:06:00 UTC