Hi,
I work with a team on several website projects that are reference titles aimed at school age kids. Because we sell these sites to schools and libraries we have some authentication we have to go through in order to only allow in users who have purchased access to the sites. Right now we are using cookies to manage this authentication. Once a user is authenticated they can return to the site and the persistent cookie tells the site’s server they are allowed in and they don’t have to do the username/password thing again.
Our problem is this, many of our users have firewalls at their end that are stripping the cookies out of the headers. This makes our authentication system useless for them unless they punch a whole in their firewall for us to get cookies through. As you can imagine they are reluctant to do this as that is part of why they bought the firewall in the first place. Is there a way I can authenticate users and have them get back into the site during some later sessionwithout cookies?
I’m the most novice member of the team, which is why I’m doing the investigation for alternatives. So blast away if this is an idiotic question!
Thanks in advance,
Doug Farrell