Adding cookies to RevBrowser

[Terry Judd]

Thanks Slava - looks like I'll have to brush up on my javascript.

Cheers,

Terry...


On 19/07/2011 03:08 PM, "Slava Paperno" <slava at lexiconbridge.com> wrote:

> You can manipulate the HTML of the Web page that is about to load in your
> revBrowser instance, and thus add a JS function to that Web page. The
> function can set the cookie that you need. You can call the function either
> from the onload trigger in the body tag, or by calling it from LC.
> 
> Slava
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-
>> bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Terry Judd
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 12:39 AM
>> To: How to use LiveCode
>> Subject: Adding cookies to RevBrowser
>> 
>> My university has just implemented a Single Sign-On service which is
>> probably a good thing for most but breaks all my existing routines for
>> authenticating against the university library (to allow me to display
>> library resources either in a revBrowser instance or in the user¹s
>> default
>> browser).
>> 
>> Anyway, I can apparently request a token (by posting a username and
>> password
>> combination to a particular url) and use this to set a browser cookie,
>> which
>> should then allow me to avoid displaying an SSO login screen to the
>> user
>> when they first try to access a library resource. Can someone give me
>> some
>> clues as to how I go about manually setting a named cookie for
>> RevBrowser
>> and/or the user¹s default browser?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Terry...
>> 
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>> Dr Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
>> Medical Education Unit
>> Melbourne Medical School
>> The University of Melbourne
>> 
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Melbourne Medical School
The University of Melbourne