Re: Changing browser URL based on condition

Agree with the consensus.  The URI should be descriptive of the 
function, so any requests to /login should be from users who are 
attempting to... login.  The home page should be housed under a separate 
URL (/home for example)

After the user has authenticated, the login module should redirect to 
the /home URI.  Any links to the home page from within the application 
should likewise refer to /home.   You should have security in place to 
redirect any unauthenticated users to /login before requests for /home 
(or any other part of your application) are processed.

If you for some reason simply MUST keep referring people to /login when 
they are expecting to see the home page, put code in your login module 
to check for authenticated users and redirect them to /home before 
displaying the login page.  If the user doesn't have a session, then go 
ahead and display the login form.


On 11-07-11 03:14 PM, Jerry Pereira wrote:
> Hi Edward,
> I have the following design:
> A single PerlResponseHandler for all requests. This handler based on 
> the path decides the action to be taken
> For example, if the user submits to www.example.com/login 
> <http://www.example.com/login>, then the handler delegates the request 
> to authentication module, which will then either display the home page 
> (throug home page template) or login page again, based on the 
> success/failure of authentication mechanism. Since i am rendering the 
> page via template, i am able to generate the content of home page 
> which i then send back to the client, but the URL on the browser 
> remails the same (i.e. www.example.com/login 
> <http://www.example.com/login>), which is not true. Any suggestions to 
> handle this scenario will be great.
> Thanks,
> Jerry
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Szekeres, Edward 
> <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     If you are looking to do this for “cosmetic reasons”, I do this be
>     simply using frame sets and doing redirects in the child frame. 
>     The URL displayed in the location bar will always be constant for
>     the parent frame.  I donÂ’t think there is any way to do this at
>     the core level or it would be a spoofers windfall.   The browser
>     will always have the actual location in the info panel.
>
>     *From:*Jerry Pereira [mailto:[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>]
>     *Sent:* Monday, July 11, 2011 2:48 PM
>     *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     *Subject:* Changing browser URL based on condition
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     I would like to know if there is a way to change the URL displayed on
>     browser without using Redirect option. The URL visible on client
>     browser
>     must be based on some condition that is evaluated in my mod_perl
>     handler.
>
>     For example -
>
>     1. User types the URL - www.example.com <http://www.example.com/>,
>     this will display the login page.
>     2. Once the user enters the credentials and hits submit, the
>     request is
>     posted to www.example.com/login <http://www.example.com/login> action.
>     3. If the credentials entered by the user is valid then i would
>     like to show
>     the home page..uri
>     4. I am able to show the homw page, but the URL does not change to
>     www.example.com/home <http://www.example.com/home>, instead it
>     remains the same (i.e.
>     www.example.com/login <http://www.example.com/login>). I am using
>     Template toolkit to render my pages. I
>     tried $req->url('/home'), but that does not change the browser URI.
>
>     Any help will be appreciated.
>
>
>     Thanks,
>     Jerry
>
>
>
>
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