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Dawg
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:19 am Reply with quote

Greetings All,
I have several sites that access another server for weather related data. This data is outside of Nuke and will stay outside of nuke. What I need to do is control access to that data by Groups. I have NSNGroups working.

What I am looking for here is theory for the How to do it. I want to make sure I am going about this correctly before I sit down to code it. (I will have questions there to I am sure...but...that is for a later time)

So my user HAS to be logged to access the services. HE clicks on the link....the data server needs to know who they are.....if they are logged in.....which site they came from....and what group they belong to.

What I am thinking is to pass the userid with the URL.
I assume I can pull the userid and $var it into the url
Have the data server check the db for that userid and....

How do I check which site they came from? (referrers are not relible)
In the past I have used a ping and pong approach.

How do I check IF they are logged in? (This is biggie...casue I have not idea) Will the logic behind "Is user" and "Is loggedin" work?

I assume I can run a query on the db to find out what group userid belongs to so that should be easy.

What do you think of this proposed process? Is there a better way?

Checking which site and if they are logged in is where I get blurrie....Am I going about this the right way?

Thank You for your time!

Dawg
 
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Raven
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:53 am Reply with quote

First of all, don't use GET. Use POST instead. Next, I would set up a table that cross references the legitimate sites with a special and unique token of some kind. Then pass that with your call to the data server. You could store it is a $_SESSION parameter. Using SSL would make this much more secure, but in the absence of that, I would suggest using cUrl or even a socket connection to handshake and make confirmation.
 
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