Re: FLASH: Loading data from file...

[Jon Williams]

If you want your authentication to be serious, you don't

want to send the list of valid usernames and passwords

to flash. That's easily hackable.


What you want to do is have flash send the person's

username / password to the server (cgi/servlet/etc)

and have the server reply with a new swf file if the

authentication is successful.


If however, you're intent on doing it all flash, nothing

but the flash, you'd make a textfile that looks like:


user1=mary

&mary_pass=wombat

&user2=jim

&jim_pass=slackstack

&user3=tina

&tina_pass=oopsy

...etc...


You load it all up, with the load variables command,

then you have the user enter myName and myPass into a

pair of textboxes, and compare to your list like this:

- -


Set Variable: "authenticated" = false

If (Eval(myName & "_pass") eq myPass)

    Set Variable: "authenticated" = true

End If


- -

(technically you don't even need the user1 user2 user3 etc

unless you want to do a separate check for: "that username

does not exist"...which i guess you'd need to do since the

above code would let someone put in a bs username and an

empty password, and they'd probably be authenticated ...

that's why you do this sort of thing on the backend...)


so please don't do it this way....*grin*


-jon





Nuno Esculcas wrote:


> Hello to all

>

>     I've got a problem, i want to do a site that needs to be autorized for

> the acess. And i need that the flash loads a file (or something) that is

> will be easy to update.

>

>     How i do this, the idea is probably a file that has "name" and "pass"

> and load this at the start of the flash application (but how this is done,

> the loading of the file?)

>

> --

>          Ateciosamente:

>

>                            Nuno Jos� Rodrigues Mendes Esculcas

>

>

njmendesstudent [dot] dei [dot] uc [dot] pt

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