authentication by an external website

Hello,

I have an application running on apache/unix and an application on IIS
(in a different machine). I would like to create a link beteween the
above two applications so when users login to the application on
apache/unix they dont have to relogin to the application on IIS. Right
now the application in IIS has basic authentication with anonymous
logins disabled and I would like that to continue.

Any ideas ?

Thanks,

Vijay

Re: authentication by an external website

rva_ec@yahoo.com wrote on 1 Jun 2006 02:32:38 -0700:

> Hello,
>
> I have an application running on apache/unix and an application on IIS
> (in a different machine). I would like to create a link beteween the
> above two applications so when users login to the application on
> apache/unix they dont have to relogin to the application on IIS. Right
> now the application in IIS has basic authentication with anonymous
> logins disabled and I would like that to continue.
>
> Any ideas ?

Unless you have both machines appearing to be the same hostname, and use the
same Realm name on each for basic auth, I can't see how you could get it to
work. It's not something you can control from the server side - it's the way
the browsers handle passing the credentials.

Can you not move to a form based login system with user details held in a
database server available to both applications, and have credentials passed
from one machine to the other?

Dan