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Re: Posting and redirecting to remote script [message #173292 is a reply to message #173287]

Fri, 01 April 2011 23:02

Twayne
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In news:e96fbcd2-b36f-4005-b135-7c86373c248a(at)a17g2000yqn(dot)googlegroups(dot)com,
Toxalot <toxalot(at)gmail(dot)com> typed:
> My client has a subscribers only area which is written in
> PHP. Login is through a form and sessions are tracked
> with cookies.
>
> One of the client's subscribers has their own members
> only website. The subscriber wants all their members to
> be able to access my client's subscribers only area
> without having to provide a username and password. The
> simplest way would be for the subscriber to put a form
> button on their site that has the login info in hidden
> fields. But that means any of their members could get the
> login details by viewing the source. I don't know how
> savvy their members are, but I don't like security
> through obscurity.
>
> I had hoped to create a simple little script that the
> subscriber could install that would post directly to my
> client's script and end up on the client's site. But so
> far, it hasn't been as simple as I'd hoped. All methods
> of posting to remote script keep the user on the same
> site.
>
> Any suggestions on how to handle this?

A PHP script operating on a remote server will NOT be visible by doing a
View Source! All they'll see is what the PHP code sends back to the screen
as HTML but not the processes which created that HTML on the fly. That's one
of the valid reasons for using PHP or any server-side programming.

HTH,

Twayne`

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		Posting and redirecting to remote script By: Toxalot on Fri, 01 April 2011 18:20
		Re: Posting and redirecting to remote script By: Captain Paralytic on Fri, 01 April 2011 18:36
		Re: Posting and redirecting to remote script By: Toxalot on Fri, 01 April 2011 19:54
		Re: Posting and redirecting to remote script By: Captain Paralytic on Fri, 01 April 2011 20:24
		Re: Posting and redirecting to remote script By: Twayne on Fri, 01 April 2011 23:02
		Re: Posting and redirecting to remote script By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 01 April 2011 23:30
		Re: Posting and redirecting to remote script By: Toxalot on Sat, 02 April 2011 12:35
		Re: Posting and redirecting to remote script By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 02 April 2011 12:44

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