- From: Anselm Baird_Smith <Anselm.Baird_Smith@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 11:43:19 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: pazandak@OBJS.com
- Cc: www-jigsaw@w3.org
Paul Pazandak writes: > Hello, > > What portion of code causes the authorization screen to be displayed on > the client asking for username & password? (I am assuming that this > mechanism > is supported by HTTP). I have had a hard time tracking this down. > > In addition, is there a more general mechanism available to request > information > from the user, _after_ the request is made but _prior_ to sending the > reply? E.g. the > user asks for document foo.html & the server responds first with "what's > your favorite > color?" Selecting "blue" from a list results a reply containing the > document foo.html > whose text is now blue. ...it's the mechanism that's important here, > this is just an > illustrative example! You may want to check cookie support in Jigsaw (along with server side include it allows to do that kind of things). I wrote an example of that which will be (if not already) in w3c.jigsaw.filters Anselm.
Received on Wednesday, 27 August 1997 05:43:38 UTC