Part I. Logging in from 1 website to another

[GeeWond3r]

Scenario:

There are 2 existing websites (are merging) that needs to pass a user logon session to each other. User has been logging in thru a Post Form Session into California websiteA (via Active Directory acct). Idaho WebsiteB is taking over and is the main entrance for users logging in; WebsiteB has users logging in via Active Directory (not post form sessions). Now, how would websiteB pass over the User session to continue to websiteA? ..and maintain user session when the user surfs back to websiteB.

dilemma dilemma dilemma..

 

[DreXor]

easiest solution i can think of is placing a self closing popup window on each server, when the user loggs in, it posts to the validation page on the server logged into, and if successful launches this pop window to force login status on the other server. might want to use XMLHTTP to use the post method so that it's not so "visible" and because it's a popup window from the original browser window, the session is anchored to the current browser.

DreX
aKa - Robert