Re: [phplib] Remote session/authentication From: giancarlo pinerolo (giancarlo <email protected>)
Date: 07/31/01

I was not meaning sharing the remote computer or network resources, but
web services, web authenticated access.
The typical B2B stuff: you log on to your web application and it goes
and pick up data from a provider's site that feeds your app with
information....

Giancarlo

Guillaume Desclaux wrote:
>
> > You can't use XXX if the client (the PHP webserver) doesn't (or isn't
> allowed to)
> > participate in a uniformly shared XXX service.
>
> Yes of course : I've not properly explain what I've mean : I mean :
> shared a file via Samba or NFS is not probably the most "universal"
> method to share this kind of information between web server...
>
> > If NFS isn't allowed to all of your client servers, then you can't use
> NFS.
>
> yes indeed ;-)
>
> When you wrote "any client" : you mean "any web server using the remote
> authentication class of the phplib 8.x" ?
>
> > In all of these cases one must plan for network partitions. They will
> happen;
> > even on a LAN, even on a shared resource system (though for very short
> times.)
> >
> > I generally deal with a partition from the auth source by caching a
> local copy
> > at each access time. Then if a user returns, yet I cannot see the
> master data
> > source, I will allow read-only access. This splits the middle between
> absolute
> > auth and convenience.
>
> As I said : share data via NFS/Samba with a networks partitions is not
> ,in my opinion, the best solution to share data with remote server...
> there is a lot of pb with firewall, and so on... I'm thinking about an
> XML stream or some WDDX web site syndication to do that...
>
> --
> Abbestellen mit Mail an: phplib-unsubscribe <email protected>
> Kommandoliste mit Mail an: phplib-help <email protected> 

-- 
Abbestellen mit Mail an:   phplib-unsubscribe <email protected>
Kommandoliste mit Mail an: phplib-help <email protected>