Re: Passing User ID and Password in Applet

Here is a link again to the article:

http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg042005-story01.html

Like I said do not like the solution but the implementation is great.

Pete Helgren wrote:

> I had posted some of this about two years ago when I first started 
> working with the 5250 applet.  The problems that I had (and still 
> have) have to do with the passing of UserID and password in the clear 
> when I start an applet session.  Gaurav posted some code that has a 
> servlet that talks to the applet and passes the password back to it.  
> I think I can follow the approach but wanted to know if anyone else 
> had solved this problem in a different way.
>
> We have an HTML based menuing system that runs on the iSeries (under 
> an Apache web server).  The user logs in via an HTML login prompt and 
> then the menu(s) are generated from there.  Some of the menu items are 
> HTML based but some are 5250 apps and we launch them using tn5250j in 
> an applet.  We generate the HTML that launches the applet on the fly 
> using a template but so far we have had to pass the password in the 
> clear, not a good solution.  So, if you have any ideas that we could 
> use to start the applet without passing the password in the clear, I'd 
> like to hear about it.
>
> We also have a need to end the application gracefully when the users 
> are done running the 5250 application.  Right now, we display a 
> message that says "Click the Exit link to end the program" and the 
> user has to click the link to end the session.  What I would like to 
> do is have the applet close when the 5250 application has ended 
> automatically.  I am not sure how to accomplish this since the 5250 
> session would have to "tell" the applet to close....
>
> I'd appreciate anyone's idea as to how to solve these two issues as 
> simply as possible.
> Thanks,
>
> Pete Helgren
>
>
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