Re: CGIDEV2 and environment variable - HTTP_REFERER.

Thanks Brad, that IS a good thing to know.

Cookies - I've just getting into web rpg and haaaven't really gotten
that far yet.

Currently I'm setting this up with an eye to what Mel Rothman outlined
in a post awhile back to Mike Skvarenina - using a user space per
request and passing the randomly generated name of the user space as a
hidden field on the html forms.

I've fumbled into a solution for my <snip> below that so far seems to
work,

I populate the browser user space created by pgm1.pgm with the name of
pgm1 from the psds. Then, when the browser is popped with the login,
and successfully logged in, I check the user space field
'DestinationPgm' to see if the is populated and if it is, I call pgm1
from login, passing it the query string containing the user space name,
ie ?SpcName=ABCDEFGHIJ. Now, pgm1 'knows' the browser/user is logged
in.

Anyway, it works for my first 2 programs, login and pgm1.

Of course... it won't work correctly for anything but rpg generated html
so, sooner or later, I'll need a new scheme.

Thanks to you and Nathan for answering.

John B.

This env. var depends on the headers of the HTTP request, so I wouldn't
rely
on it.

I would use a session cookie to see if the user is logged in or not.

That

means adding a little routine to the beginning of every program in your
application so that if the user isn't logged in you redirect them to

the

login page.

It's not that painful if implemented correctly. :)

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

<snip>

What I'd like to do is, if a request comes in to pgm1.pgm and that
browser/user isn't logged in, I'd like to pop the login.pgm, make

them

login, and once they are logged in, direct them to where they were
heading. Ie; pgm1.pgm. I'd like to do this program-atically in my

rpg.

</snip>