In trying to discover a solution to my preivous post I drew myself a diagram of what I'm logicially trying to do with Cookies.

The parameters I am running under: Filemaker 6 unlimited, Web Security is Enabled, All databases are protected by web security. All Users have privaliges to browse records in any database. I will be setting up the User Names and Passwords in the Web Users_.fp5 database.

I trying to make a web site solution that will be used over and over again like Instant web publishing does.

First I have login page. When the User name and Password are entered it verifies the entries against the Web Users_.fp5 database. If nothing is entered, we have a "guest" using the database under the All User record. If the username and password matches, a cookie is set and user is fowarded onto the approprate database with establised privalages.

This now means, at any point when using the database and the option to edit, duplicate, update, etc. is chosen, the pop-up browswer login panel should autofill using data from the cookie. This should all be transparent from the user.

Are there any technical flaws with this diagram?

Do all my HTML/CDML pages have to have get cookie refrences?

I should only be dealing with four open databases in Filemaker at the minium, right?

Web Users_.fp5, Web Security.fp5, Web Fields_.fp5, and MyDatabase.fp5 correct?

1. I was never 100% successful with cookies. I am using Tokens or Lasso.

2. Your web server must have defined Privacy Policy XML document properly set to use cookies in IE6.