Hi all,



I need to be able to have a variable that is input at the login page to be 

passed throughout the whole web site. In most appropriate pages on the 

site I load an include file.



When first logging on to the site, the default.asp kicks in and redirects 

to the login.asp site, the user logs in and then the login username and 

password are sent to a verify.asp file, which then verifies that the user 

is acceptable. The verify.asp file will then (if ok) redirect to 

default.asp where browsing takes place etc, etc...



What I need to do is extract the username and password, send them to the 

include file and then be able to use this information to give full or 

restricted access to various users.



I think I should do this using an include file so that I don't have to 

adjust all pages of the site.



There was an article some time ago on passing a variable throughout, but I 

never read it because I had no need for this, but now I do.



Can anybody help



Thanks



Mark.

2 options are



use the session object (unless the application need to be scalable across

multiple servers, this is the best)



use a cookie (browser might not accept cookies)

Hi Alex,



Thanks for the response, I'm a newbie as I'm sure you can tell. 

I would like to use the session object as I feel it would be the easiest 

option, but I want to upload my site to brinkster.com, and unless I have 

the wrong idea, they don't allow use of the session object.



The cookie choice could also work, but as you say browser may not accept.



would it not be possible to use FSO to write a text file on the client 

storing the user/pass. I'm probably way off mark there, but I need a way 

of storing variables somehow



Regards



Mark. 



> 2 options are

> 

> use the session object (unless the application need to be scalable across

> multiple servers, this is the best)

> 

> use a cookie (browser might not accept cookies)

>