Secure Forms in Web Apps

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by ssi >> Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:35:38 GMT

Does anyone have any experience using the secure form property on a web form, I can't seem to get it to work and am not sure what I'm missing.

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by jadesupport >> Fri, 12 Oct 2001 1:45:48 GMT

From within a Web enabled JADE application, the first form loaded with the secureForm property set will still not be using the https protocol since the link on the prior non-secure page was http://.....

However, all the links on the form now displayed will be https://.....

So, the trick is to display a nice intermediate "You're about to enter the secure area of our website" form, and have the secureForm property set to true on that form. When they click the OK button (or whatever) the hyperlink will then take them to the first of your secure forms via the https://... link. Similarly you can have the reverse "You're about to leave the secure area of our website" form that does not have the secureForm property set to true and has all non-secure http://... links.

One benefit of the intermediate form is that you're reminding the user as they enter/leave the secure areas of your Web site.

Patwos.