Cross site approach To allow receiving & sending cookies by a CORS request successfully, do the following. Back-end (server): Set the HTTP header Access-Control-Allow-Credentials value to true. Also, make sure the HTTP headers Access-Control-Allow-Origin and Access-Control-Allow-Headers are set and not with a wildcard *. For more info on setting CORS in express js read the … Read more
I do not know if the problem still exists, but I just ran into the same problem and solved it setting a session name before calling session_set_cookie_params(): $some_name = session_name(“some_name”); session_set_cookie_params(0, “https://stackoverflow.com/”, ‘.example.com’); session_start(); I have changed nothing in my php.ini but now everything is working fine.
Have the user click on a link to https://log:[email protected]/. That will overwrite existing credentials with invalid ones; logging them out.
How token-based authentication works In token-based authentication, the client exchanges hard credentials (such as username and password) for a piece of data called token. For each request, instead of sending the hard credentials, the client will send the token to the server to perform authentication and then authorization. In a few words, an authentication scheme … Read more
Google OAuth 2 authorization – Error: redirect_uri_mismatch
I suppose you want form based authentication using deployment descriptors and j_security_check. You can also do this in JSF by just using the same predefinied field names j_username and j_password as demonstrated in the tutorial. E.g. <form action=”j_security_check” method=”post”> <h:outputLabel for=”j_username” value=”Username” /> <h:inputText id=”j_username” /> <br /> <h:outputLabel for=”j_password” value=”Password” /> <h:inputSecret id=”j_password” /> … Read more
How to handle authentication in a RESTful Client-Server architecture is a matter of debate. Commonly, it can be achieved, in the SOA over HTTP world via: HTTP basic auth over HTTPS; Cookies and session management; Token in HTTP headers (e.g. OAuth 2.0 + JWT); Query Authentication with additional signature parameters. You’ll have to adapt, or … Read more
If you work on .NET 3.5 or newer, you can use the System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement namespace and easily verify your credentials: // create a “principal context” – e.g. your domain (could be machine, too) using(PrincipalContext pc = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, “YOURDOMAIN”)) { // validate the credentials bool isValid = pc.ValidateCredentials(“myuser”, “mypassword”); } It’s simple, it’s reliable, it’s 100% … Read more
Use jQuery’s beforeSend callback to add an HTTP header with the authentication information: beforeSend: function (xhr) { xhr.setRequestHeader (“Authorization”, “Basic ” + btoa(username + “:” + password)); },
Why password validation rules are bad? Our very own Jeff Atwood (blogger of Coding Horror and co-founder of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange) wrote a blog about password rules back in March of 2017 titled Password Rules are Bullshit. If you haven’t read this post, I would urge you to do so as it greatly … Read more