Redirect strategies for coping with IE7

[Jim Ault]

Perhaps this would work, since you are passing the lgn/pswd in the clear..
why not send it as a GET param?

http://www.thisdomain.com/page.php?lg=login&pw=password

Block all requests that don't come from known IP addresses with your cgi.

Would a user cookie be out of bounds?

The user could stop at a public page containing a <form> that would submit a
POST with a security string

You could send them a file named  safeDirectory.html that would be stored on
their hard drive, then they bookmark it, and it contains a <form> that would
do the POST to your server using any browser.

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Being inexperienced at this, I would be curious to see if any of the above
would be a good solution.  Certificates, etc are a mystery for me.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On 1/30/09 7:12 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> Bob Sneidar wrote:
>> Just an FYI there are content filters that react to redirects as well.
>> In this often cruel and unforgiving world it seems the use of
>> redirects and proxies can wreak havoc with the things we use to
>> protect ourselves. I am not sure what the solution is, but I can think
>> of who to blame. ;-)
> 
> Good reminder, Bob.  Thanks.
> 
> I'm not necessarily set on using redirects. Really, any method by which
> I can protect a directory from most users while granting access to some
> would work for me, provided that whatever means I use can pass the login
> into in the URL.  I'm even good with doing this in a CGI if only I could
> figure out the trick to protecting the directory....
> 
> --
>   Richard Gaskin