Re: [phplib] using POST in fall back mode From: Bryan McGuire (joefriday <email protected>)
Date: 07/12/00

If you look at the function get_finish() in oohforms.inc, you'll see plain
as day that oohforms does it my way (actually I copied his way). Why don't
you tell Jay Bloodworth that oohforms are non-standard and overkill.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Youngblood" <carly <email protected>>
To: "'Bryan McGuire'" <joefriday <email protected>>
Cc: <phplib <email protected>>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 11:17 AM
Subject: RE: [phplib] using POST in fall back mode

> Actually, this will work. The form's ACTION URL should use the
> $sess->purl() function to ensure that the GET fallback mode works.
> Embedding a hidden form variable would be overkill (and not standard
> procedure).
>
> Carl Youngblood
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan McGuire [mailto:joefriday <email protected>]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 9:08 AM
> To: NickM; David West
> Cc: phplib <email protected>
> Subject: Re: [phplib] using POST in fall back mode
>
>
> Naw, that won't help. He's not talking about clicking on a link but
> clicking a submit button in a POST form. He needs to include a hidden
> field in his form that has the session id to pass it back to the server
for
> when the user has cookies turned off.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "NickM" <nick <email protected>>
> To: "David West" <westd <email protected>>
> Cc: <phplib <email protected>>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 10:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [phplib] using POST in fall back mode
>
>
> > Did you make sure that EVERY url you print is encapsulated within
> > $sess->url($url) otherwise the session id won't be passed on.
> >
> > So basically every url must be dealt with in the code and put through
> this,
> > none in the html, at least whereever you need to keep auth that is.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David West" <westd <email protected>>
> > To: <phplib <email protected>>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 4:11 PM
> > Subject: [phplib] using POST in fall back mode
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm using PHPLIB for basic session handling. My problem is thus:
> > >
> > > I have set the mode to cookie, and fallback mode to GET. What my page
> > does
> > > is submit a form using the POST method with a user's username and
> > password.
> > > This then accesses a MySQL database which picks out some information
> about
> > > the user. I then use $sess->register() to remember this info. This
> works
> > > fine with cookies turned on, and with GET set as the $mode.
> > >
> > > However, when I use GET as the fallback mode to cookies, and disable
> > cookies
> > > in my browser, a problem arises. When the 302 and location headers
are
> > sent
> > > by PHPLIB with the session id as a URL parameter, the original posted
> > > username and password do not appear to be resent, and so I can't get
the
> > > information about the user.
> > >
> > > Obviously if I change the original form to use GET instead of POST,
> it'll
> > > work, but I don't want the users password visible in the URL.
> > >
> > > Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
> > > David West
> > >
> > > PS. I'm using PHPLIB as a bunch of includes, and I can't change
php.ini,
> > > etc. I dunno if this is relevant?
> > >
> > >
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