Posted by David Smithz on 08/20/06 22:57

"Daniel R. Tobias" <dan@tobias.name> wrote in message
>
> My bank's site has an "aggregator" that shows information from all my
> other online accounts, but it does this server-side, rather than
> client-side. In other words, there is scripting at the back end, on the
> server, that logs in to all those other sites (using passwords I supplied)
> and gets my info. This sort of thing can be programmed in a language such
> as Perl, which has a module to issue HTTP get and post requests. The
> user's browser isn't involved at all, except when the results of all the
> back-end activity are displayed.


This is the lines I was thinking of. I was going to answer David Dorwards
email saying about this but this is a good example.

Essentially I was hoping there was some server way of achieving this, where
on a server all the login information is held ( in a secure format lets say)
and then that server handles the login to whatever service. The server acts
like my sitting at the computer entering all the log in details. Then it
relays that information to me on my own webbrower, so it seems that I have
logged into the service automatically.

To give a further detailed example,

I want to log into my hotmail and yahoo accounts at the same time (Ignoring
the option for pop3 access, this isjust an example).

Therefore I visit my webpage which is hosted on the server with all my login
information. Lets call that, mySpecialPage.
mySpecialPage knows I am visiting, so from a DB or whatever, pulls my login
information up and then communicates with the Yahoo and Hotmail webpages to
log me in as if I was login in.

Once logged in, mySpecialPage displays to me the logged in pages of Yahoo
and Hotmail ( most probably in separate frames), so it has logged on for me,
but I still see the results.

So is this possible. I need to know if this is feasible. I welcome any
details comments on this subject particularly if there are any experts in
this area?

Thanks again.

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