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I have an HTML page that captures a user entered password in the variable &IBIC_user. This works fine however if the user refreshes their browser session and types in another password the &IBIC_user variable is keeping the first password. Is there a way for the HTML page to clear out the old password. My browser is IE 6.0.2800.1106, WF v5.33, Windows 2000 server.
 
Posts: 189 | Location: pgh pa | Registered: October 06, 2004Report This Post
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try add this code with in your HEAD tag.

META http-equiv=Pragma contane=no-cache
META http-equiv=Cache-Control content=no-cache
META http-equiv=Expires content=0
 
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slight typo on the first line:

<META http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
 
Posts: 10577 | Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Registered: April 27, 2005Report This Post
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I added this code and still only picking up the first password that was entered.

META http-equiv=Pragma content=no-cache
META http-equiv=Cache-Control content=no=cache
META http-equiv=Expires content=0
 
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What does the HTML page do?

IBIC_user should be the user id.

IBIC_pass should be the password.
 
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The HTML page captures the value entered into &IBIC_user. I referred to the value as a password it can be called a user id. The value entered in &IBIC_user is compared to values stored in a database via a fex to determine what the user is allowed to run.
 
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try change the cgivars.wfs - c:/ibi/apps/srv/wfs

WF_COOKIE_EXPIRATION = 0
EXPIRE_REPORTS=300
 
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that is what cgivars.wfs has
 
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Have you tried adding an onSubmit or onClick action to see what's actually in the form object?

onClick="alert(document.forms[0].IBIC_user.value);"
 
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What I would do is someting like this.
Create a Session Variable & instead of
calling it IBIC_user let scall
the variable something like UID.
With that said I would then
edit my site.wfs file and create a session variable like this
#Check to see if the 
variable exist that is coming in 
from a html page some where.
# Store the variable in a session 
any name will do but lets call it _SessionVar_UID
httpsession=_SessionVar_UID
 <call> CopyWFVarToSessionVar(
UID,httpsession)
<endif><br />#
# lets retrieve the variable out f
rom the session<br />wfvar=UID<br />httpsession=_SessionVar_UID
<call> CopySessionVarToWFVar
(httpsession,wfvar)
# Finally Let pass the variable bact to the WebFOCUS Reporting Server where 
it can use it.<SET>UID(pass)
# If you realy need to call 
it IBIC_user you could add this lineIBIC_user=&UID
And if you want pass it bact to the 
reporting server<br /><SET>IBIC_user(pass)

Hope this Helps

This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Mabel>,
 
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TexasStingray,

the same thing is happening with the variable uid. if i do a refresh of the browser and enter a new value the first value entered in uid is what is displaying. some how the first value entered in uid is being cached and when a new value is entered in uid it is not overlaying the previous value.
 
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Spence,

When you say "refresh browser session" do you mean closing down your browser and opening it up again, or just using the same browser window and loggin in a second time? I ask because if you do not completely close down your browser, it might continue to maintain the cookie from you initial login session.

You could force a cookie cleanup by calling the WF_SIGNOFF (might want to check up on the exact param name to use) action. This would prevent unwanted session persistence.
 
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