[Zope] Autologin

Chris McDonough chrism at plope.com
Thu Jun 3 20:20:32 EDT 2004


It allows for "automatic login" inasmuch as your can cause the auth
cookie to be persisted for longer than the duration of one browser
invocation, so that the next time they visit the website, the cookie
gets sent back and they are authenticated.

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 20:07, Peter Bengtsson wrote:
> I know about CookieCrumbler but does it allow for automatic login?
> If not, I guess I'll have to use CookieCrumbler and subclass it to suit 
> my needs.
> 
> Chris McDonough wrote:
> 
> > Basic HTTP authentication (as used by the standard Zope user folder)
> > won't let you do this, but cookie-based auth allows for this.  Shane's
> > CookieCrumbler is included with CMF but can be used independently to
> > provide an interface between non-cookie-aware user folders and
> > cookie/form authentication handling.
> > 
> > On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 19:29, Peter Bengtsson wrote:
> > 
> >>I've got a basic folderish python product where its instances will by 
> >>default have the View permission switched off, so you get bugger all 
> >>unless you authenticate yourself.
> >>By saving the username and password in Mozilla/IE/... it just requires 
> >>an Enter touch when the login dialog appears; but I don't even want that 
> >>to appear. I want it to work like Sourceforge does where it remembers my 
> >>whole login without any authentication on each visit.
> >>
> >>What tools/hacks are available to achieve this?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > .
> > 




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