Re: web login form

[Nate Reindl <reindlnr@apci.net>]

Quoting Bob Castleberry <castlebb@cuinc.org>:

> If one were going to make a web login form for clients to log in and see
> the progress of their orders what would be the best way to go about this?

I've always gone about it using Zope, Perl, PHP, C, or even shell.  Do Google 
searches for the former three; most Unices nowadays include ways to use the 
latter couple effectively.

> The way I would like to do it is through a web form that could use their
> username to redirect them to the appropriate page.  any links or suggestions
> would help tremendously, thanks.

If you really want me to spout off what I've done (in detail, even) in the not-
so-recent past, ask.  I've implemented some really interesting things into 
login forms to prevent people from running bots or crackers on them 
successfully, and well, most of them were math- and chemistry/physics-induced 
implementations not meant for the average every-other-day user.  I used the 
principles of half-life to write up a keycode system that degenerated depending 
on the half-life of uranium-238 or some other isotope.  It made cracking things 
*really* difficult because an attacker (most likely NOT a script kidiot) had to 
know the exact *second* I started the countdown, or else he/she would spend a 
good deal of time running a brute force attack with a variable length 
containing anywhere from 20 characters to 500-odd.  This keycode was 
accompanied with the usual usr/pwd combination provided most everywhere now.  
It was one of my more recent projects, though.  Thanks to some book about 
chemistry review that I found in my dad's collection.

Anyway...

Kara and Steve, Trae says, "Howdy!"
*cough*
Don't ask.

Nate
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