FM8 IWP Guest Account Puzzler - Crafty Workaround Needed

Typical web sites allow guests to visit public areas without encountering a log-in dialog, but more privileged users can do more after logging in.

Here is the challenge in FileMaker 8 IWP. If you give web privileges to any user other than Guest then everyone must encounter the login dialog, guests included.

John May from Point in Space suggested a force-authenticate for someone entering the site but, alas I am not knowledgeable enough to know how to implement this.

I am hoping there is someone out there who is smarter than I (well, ok I know that much is easy) who can think of a way to automatically login arriving site users with a base level of privilege. Then later they can be upgraded using a relogin script if appropriate.

I have seen posts from other people searching for this solution. Please post if you can think of a workaround.

Thanks for considering this puzzle.

Edited March 7, 200619 yr by Guest