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Web Server - Ask For Help / Graceful notice of timed-out session?

« on: March 15, 2014, 02:30:20 PM »

Wise ones,

What's a graceful way to let a user know that his session has timed out?

My bank, for example, starts popping up "if you're idle for two more minutes you'll be logged off" messages.
Then bounces to a login page once they've killed the session.

For a site that doesn't require a login, I'd like to switch to a "need to reconnect" page when it's timed out. 
Otherwise people (such as me) try clicking buttons on the screen 20 minutes later and nothing happens.

Is there something in the NT examples showing this sort of thing... or a thread you can point me at?
Or a suggested approach?

TIA

Jane

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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: NT 7.37 and String Theory 2 compile errors

« on: March 10, 2014, 11:10:46 PM »

I just got that red banner error also tonight.. saying web folder is on 7.36 and needs to be on 7.37.
Which is strange, in that I was on 7.31 prior to the upgrade.

The netweb.js file in my libsrc\win\netweb\web\scripts folder is dated 3/07/2014 8:35AM, and has the line
;var NetTalkVersion = 7.36;

I edited that to 7.37 and ran the gzipall batch file, and the error went away.

Jane

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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: Windows pass-through authentication?

« on: June 20, 2013, 06:07:10 AM »

Thanks, Bruce.

I don't know the mechanism, just from an end-user have experienced that it works on the corporate networks where I contract.

This is one article I just found:  http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/http-authentication

And a quick search turned this up for firefox:  http://ole.michelsen.dk/blog/firefox-auto-login-with-windows-authentication-and-ad/

If this isn't workable...  looking at the "LoginBeforeFrame" and "AccessLevels" demos, it would appear that the approach might be to protect at least the login screen with SSL and then to have the webserver exe hash the password and authenticate against its own user file?

Thanks.

Jane

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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: Windows pass-through authentication?

« on: June 19, 2013, 04:06:24 PM »

Thanks, Kevin.

I was using SSRS and pass-through authentication just as an example.

My NetTalk web server does access a SQL database, but the app itself does that using SQL authentication not related to the identity of the user connecting from a browser.

I want to know who's connecting from the browser session to set some user-specific configuration stuff (preferences and access).  That's just stuff my web server app needs to know, not anything involved with SQL authentication.

And while I mentioned IE, a lot of our internal users use Chrome. 
While Chrome won't display the SSRS reports properly, BTW, it does pass through the user authentication information to the SSRS web service just fine.

Jane

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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: Windows pass-through authentication?

« on: June 19, 2013, 01:22:12 PM »

Hi, Peter,

Yes, the right track.

For example, when I'm on a domain computer and connect to the internal SQL Server Reporting Services website on our company LAN, Internet Explorer automatically authenticates me.

When I use a browser on my laptop that's not part of the domain, SSRS presents me with a login screen because the domain-based SSRS security has no idea who I am.

I'd like to know whether the mechanism that SSRS uses to know who's at the other end of the browser could be used connecting to a NetTalk app.

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Web Server - Ask For Help / Windows pass-through authentication?

« on: June 19, 2013, 07:34:41 AM »

When running a NetTalk web server on an intranet, is it possible to capture the Windows Active Directory domain user's login name?  (Something like using GetUserName from CWUTIL).

Thanks for any help.

Jane Fleming