" You can license our web portal."
We don't really buy software. It would have to be included in IBMi or FOSS.
" I'm not aware of any other options on any platform, IBM i or otherwise."
Hmm... I can't believe I'm the only one concerned about this. Of course, there is your commercial solution and may be others.
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Andelin [mailto:nandelin@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 4:46 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Apache authentication efficiency
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:10 AM Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm hoping for more specifics. Ideally, I'd like a lead I can
research, prototype and implement.
You can license our web portal. Another alternative that I can think of may be based on OA. Vendors generally implement a JavaScript application that is functionally comparable to a 5250 emulator. That client communicates with an OA server that is generally implemented within a persistent CGI process. I suspect those servers only authenticate once (at the server's entry point), then rely on the persistent connection after that.
I'm not aware of any other options on any platform, IBM i or otherwise. I think the common practice is to check the credentials of the user and check user authority for every resource requested, because the interfaces are stateless. Developers either rely on an HTTP server for that. Or they add a call within every application to a routine that authenticates the user and checks their authority.
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