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author | Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> | 2010-08-27 10:01:58 +0200 |
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committer | Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> | 2010-08-27 10:01:58 +0200 |
commit | f398ad035b973608d380c9939ea845d8e2a0cdc2 (patch) | |
tree | 1ba1a0c94e375ab8ed609eaa57a542c6b87de5a8 /doc/forum/appear_if_you_are_login_or_not_in_a_page.mdwn | |
parent | 958e5735c946263a111420fe47abe58782581e8c (diff) | |
parent | 6d213a0c739d5b34357b01a616f99197eeba6ad9 (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.ikiwiki.info
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diff --git a/doc/forum/appear_if_you_are_login_or_not_in_a_page.mdwn b/doc/forum/appear_if_you_are_login_or_not_in_a_page.mdwn index e50eb4e1c..be9854a08 100644 --- a/doc/forum/appear_if_you_are_login_or_not_in_a_page.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/appear_if_you_are_login_or_not_in_a_page.mdwn @@ -3,3 +3,34 @@ Hi, Can you give me a hint for showing if one user is logged or not. If user is logged, then I want to display the user name, as wikipedia or dokuwiki for example. Regards, Xan. + +> ikiwiki doesn't serve pages, so this can't be done inside ikiwiki. +> For certain kinds of authentication it might be possible anyway. +> For instance, if you're using [[plugins/httpauth]] exclusively and +> your server has PHP, you could put `<?php print("$REMOTE_USER"); +> ?>` in all the relevant ikiwiki [[templates]] and arrange for the +> generated HTML pages to get run through the PHP interpreter. The trick +> would work differently with other [[plugins/type/auth]] plugins, +> if at all. --[[Schmonz]] + +>> Thanks a lot, Xan. + +>>> Another possible trick would be to use some Javascript to make a +>>> "who am I?" AJAX request to the CGI (the CGI would receive the +>>> session cookie, if any, and be able to answer). Obviously, this +>>> wouldn't work for users who've disabled Javascript, but since it's +>>> non-essential, that's not so bad. You'd need to +>>> [[write_a_plugin|plugins/write]] to add a suitable CGI action, +>>> perhaps ?do=whoami, and insert the Javascript. --[[smcv]] + +>>>> It's an idea, but you're trading off a serious speed hit for a very +>>>> minor thing. --[[Joey]] + +>>>> Cool idea. A similar trick (I first saw it +>>>> [here](http://www.peej.co.uk/articles/http-auth-with-html-forms.html)) +>>>> could be used to provide a [[plugins/passwordauth]]-like login form +>>>> for [[plugins/httpauth]]. --[[Schmonz]] + +>>>>> I always assumed the entire reason someone might want to use the +>>>>> httpauth plugin is to avoid nasty site-specific login forms.. +>>>>> --[[Joey]] |