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  • dnagel
    #1

    ASP login timeout and Form data...

    I have a session timing out after 10 minutes. If the user clicks a
    submit button to post some form data after the timeout has expired, they
    are redirected to a login page...

    Whats the standard practice for discovering what page they were
    headed to and how can I make sure that the form data is posted to that
    page so that no data is lost???

    My assumption here is that the mechanism i'm using to redirect the user
    to the login page, needs to pass the original destination as well as the
    form data to the Login Form, and then the login form, once a proper
    authentication is performed, would redirect to the original destination
    allowing me to process the form data... ???

    Am I even close; Is there any example of this process anywhere?


    TIA,

    D.
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    • Al Reid
      #2
      Re: ASP login timeout and Form data...

      I do the same thing on my web site. It has been a while since I looked at the code.

      I believe that I do a redirect to the login page and then get the Request.ServerV ariables ("HTTP_REFERER" ). After authentication, I
      navigate using http_referer.

      Again, it has been a while and I don't have access to the source from my current location.

      --
      Al Reid

      "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know\\for sure that just ain't so." --- Mark Twain
      "dnagel" <NOTGrandNagel@ hotmail.com> wrote in message news:uYQWnuQDEH A.3788@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
      > I have a session timing out after 10 minutes. If the user clicks a
      > submit button to post some form data after the timeout has expired, they
      > are redirected to a login page...
      >
      > Whats the standard practice for discovering what page they were
      > headed to and how can I make sure that the form data is posted to that
      > page so that no data is lost???
      >
      > My assumption here is that the mechanism i'm using to redirect the user
      > to the login page, needs to pass the original destination as well as the
      > form data to the Login Form, and then the login form, once a proper
      > authentication is performed, would redirect to the original destination
      > allowing me to process the form data... ???
      >
      > Am I even close; Is there any example of this process anywhere?
      >
      >
      > TIA,
      >
      > D.[/color]


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        • dnagel
          #3
          Re: ASP login timeout and Form data...

          Al Reid wrote:
          [color=blue]
          > I do the same thing on my web site. It has been a while since I looked at the code.
          >
          > I believe that I do a redirect to the login page and then get the Request.ServerV ariables ("HTTP_REFERER" ). After authentication, I
          > navigate using http_referer.
          >
          > Again, it has been a while and I don't have access to the source from my current location.
          >[/color]

          Awesome start... If anyone (or yourself Al) knows how to handle the
          posted data in a similar manner (one that does not require recoding all
          the other pages involved... just the login page would be nice) I'd be
          ecstatic!

          tia,

          D.

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            • Al Reid
              #4
              Re: ASP login timeout and Form data...

              D.

              I use the "GET" rather than "POST" so that the Request.ServerV ariables
              ("HTTP_REFERER" ) contains everything I need to handle the form data after
              re-authentication. For some reason, I was storing that in a Session
              variable and then redirecting to that link after login is completed.

              I don't pretend to be a web wizard. so my approach is probably brute force,
              but it seems to work. I am not sure how to handle it if you use the Post
              method.

              I hope this is of some help.

              --
              Al Reid
              "dnagel" <NOTGrandNagel@ hotmail.com> wrote in message
              news:%23D5uwaSD EHA.3344@tk2msf tngp13.phx.gbl. ..[color=blue]
              > Al Reid wrote:
              >[color=green]
              > > I do the same thing on my web site. It has been a while since I looked[/color][/color]
              at the code.[color=blue][color=green]
              > >
              > > I believe that I do a redirect to the login page and then get the[/color][/color]
              Request.ServerV ariables ("HTTP_REFERER" ). After authentication, I[color=blue][color=green]
              > > navigate using http_referer.
              > >
              > > Again, it has been a while and I don't have access to the source from my[/color][/color]
              current location.[color=blue][color=green]
              > >[/color]
              >
              > Awesome start... If anyone (or yourself Al) knows how to handle the
              > posted data in a similar manner (one that does not require recoding all
              > the other pages involved... just the login page would be nice) I'd be
              > ecstatic!
              >
              > tia,
              >
              > D.[/color]


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