[3380] in java-interest
Re-identifying a user
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Robinson)
Thu Nov 9 23:21:25 1995
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 20:42:09 -0500
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: gary@post.acadia.net (Gary Robinson)
Hello,
I desperately need some way of automatically identifying a user across sessions.
It doesn't have to be perfect. I don't need the level of security involved
in asking the user for a user ID and password. If anybody wants to pretend
they're somebody else, that's fine.
But I need to be able to USUALLY correctly identify a user who comes back
to my site.
And I want it to be invisible. I don't want to have to prompt the user.
Is there a way to do that? Does the magic cookie mechanism help?
I was thinking about using Java. The first time a user visits my site, a
Java applet would generate a random number and save it somewhere. Then, on
return visits, it would read that random number.
But today I found out that Java can't write to disk in the Netscape
implementation!!
Is there ANY way I can do what I'm trying to do??
Many thanks in advance,
Gary
Gary Robinson
President
First Software, Inc.
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