Timeout token

• From: Anselm Baird_Smith <abaird@www43.inria.fr>
• Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 08:53:51 +0100 (MET)
• To: karenkay@sholink.com (Karen Cheng)
• Cc: www-jigsaw@w3.org
• Message-Id: <199702280753.IAA25697@www43.inria.fr>

Karen Cheng writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I'd like to make the jigsaw server request a username and password
 > at initial login for each user, and assign a token if he/she is
 > authorized.  Whenever a page is requested, we check the token to
 > see if the idle time is more than 2 minutes.  If it is, then
 > we request him/her to enter a username and password again.
 > 
 > Is there a way to do this using existing jigsaw authentication classes?

No, but that's part of DigestAuth, which is to be implemented some day

Anselm.

Received on Friday, 28 February 1997 02:53:58 UTC