[thelist] Privacy Questions

[patrick]

In a sense, yes. If you do a lot of PHP stuff, consider using the phplib
classes. They make a lot of the authentication/session/permission stuff a
lot easier to deal with (the dev is on sourceforge now, I believe).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tamara Nelson" <tamara at sanctusmoo.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 11:31 am
Subject: Re: [thelist] Privacy Questions


> Without sounding like a complete dink (which I am...)  A session is just a
> dressed up name for what I'm considering a cookie to be - a timed "key" if
> you will.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "patrick" <evolt at stoutstreet.com>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Privacy Questions
>
>
> > Tamara,
> > You could have the login session time out after a brief
period.......also,
> > the sensitive data could be fed in to the page in a temporary fashion.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tamara Nelson" <tamara at sanctusmoo.com>
> > To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 10:30 am
> > Subject: [thelist] Privacy Questions
> >
> >
> > > I have a client that I do websites for. (duh)  Now he'd like a
personal,
> > > heavily password protected site that his business associates can't get
> > into.
> > >
> > > I'm looking at a PHP/Cookie based solution - where you'll get bounced
> back
> > > to the UN/Password form if you don't have a cookie granting you
access -
> > and
> > > I've looked at .htaccess on Apache.
> > >
> > > I'm also going to make sure the site can't get indexed by robots.
> > >
> > > Am I missing anything?  There's going to be some sensative content
there
> > > that should not fall into the wrong hands... and I want to make sure
> that
> > I
> > > cover all my bases.
> > >
> > > Also, any way that I can best cover myself in case something goes
> terribly
> > > wrong?
> > >
> > >
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