Forcing WC to Require Password upon Site Entry...

[Jerremy]

Hi All,

Using the FM Article #105365 "Forcing Web Companion to Require Password upon Site Entry", I created my CDML page which works fine.

However, when an incorrect username/password combo in entered, you get the error message (no access to find all) and then the browser shows a blank page...

I added the -error tag as shown below:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content = " 1; URL=FMPro?-db=Database.fp5&-lay=web&-format=login.html&-Error=mainerror.html&-FindAny">

I thought that if an incorrect password/username was entered, it would load my mainerror.html page... But that does not happen, I just get the blank page.

Am I doing something wrong... Is there a better way to handle this? I would just like the user to get an error message on a page, and have that page give them the opportunity to try again.

Thanks for your help!

Jerremy

[ March 24, 2002, 09:10 AM: Message edited by: Jerremy ]

[Garry Claridge]

You could place an error message, with a 'back' button, on the page with the 'META refresh'.

I think that the Web Companion is only communicating at the http level during the authentication process and will not allow any format file access. A pity though!

All the best.

Garry

[Jerremy]

Hi Anatoli,

I'm not sure what you mean by FM "protected" pages...

I'd like to somehow display an error page when someone makes a mistake with their username/password, it let's them know that they made the mistake, and shows a button to click to retry. When they click, it just reloads my index.html page to trigger the username/password dialog.

There has to be something... I don't want to leave users at a blank page not knowing what to do next...

Thanks for you help!

Jerremy

[Anatoli]

How do you ask for password? As I wrote there are 3 ways

What are you using?

[Jerremy]

Hello again,

Thanks Garry. So you think I have it correct, it's just that the WC won't allow the error file...?

Let me explain a little more... A user would hit my page: http://www.mypage.com.

They would get the username and password dialog box immediately, as the code I posted is my index.html.

When an incorrect username/password combo is given, they get the error message and then they are stuck on the blank index.html file.

I don't want to put any other data in there - like a retry button and error message, because that will be the first thing they see when they hit the page... Even though it has the refresh...

Any ideas?

Thanks again,

Jerremy

[Anatoli]

I am using 3 schemes of how to get to FM "protected" pages.

If I will understand what you trying to achieve, I can help.