RE: New educational app

["David C. Moore" <dmoore@mbhs.edu>]

Heya all,

I'm the author of AUC.  Just to answer the question about userid/password
combos, the login is trickier than it looks.  Your browser needs to handle
both cookies and javascript for it to work.  The cookies will always be
necessary, as browser-based digest authentication is just too restrictive.
The javascript bit is a bit of a hack.  Basically, it's necessary so that
when a user presses 'enter' in the password field, the form will be
submitted (this is conventionally impossible on a form with more than one 
input field). It is such an annoying hack that the form fails completely
without javascript, even when you click the button directly.  In a future
version, I'll try to make this backwards compatable to non-javascript
browsers.

The source should compile on most unices, as there isn't really any tricky
OS-dependant code in it at all.

Regards,

David Moore

On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:

> I just tried to take a look. Unfortunately, the userid/password combinations
> they list for test access do not work for me, so I can't give it a test
> drive. The description sounds nice. 
> 
> They say it requires MySQL C and Perl libraries -- not a big deal for
> schools but one more detail to take care of if you want to get and try it
> (it is available for download). They also mention only testing in on kernel
> 2.2.x (and Irix 6.5).
> 
> At 05:05 PM 9/10/99 -0700, Ian Thomas wrote:
> >This looks very interesting.  Has any one on this list tried out the AUC
> >package.
> >I noted that it is version 0.5 so I would expect some significant holes. 
> [test deleted]
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> Ray Olszewski                                        -- Han Solo
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