For a non-secure session tracking, couldn't you put a session key in the
appparam?
--Jason
--- Ashish Agrawal <ashish_ag@hotmail.com> wrote:
> it's an interesting way of doing authentication,
> but what does it buy you over lets say, having the user sign-in via the
> iappli itself, and then sending that user name over to the server each time
> ? or maybe i am just missing something.
> OR I guess i don't understand what u mean by signing in via a "basic
> authentication"
>
> -Ashish
>
> >
> > After writing an IAppli that periodically
> >downloaded data from a server, I wanted to see how
> >often a user was actually using the IAppli and also
> >determine how many users were using it at one time,
> >etc. The problem I found was that every http request
> >from the IAppli came in on a different IP port making
> >tracking pretty difficult.
> >
> > What I ended up doing was forcing the user to log
> >in before he/she downloaded the IAppli and then passed
> >this login name to the IAppli via the AppParam in the
> >jam file.
> >
> > Some more details of what I did are here (it's
> >not beautiful code by any means):
> >http://www.randallmackay.com/identifyingTheUserOfYourIappli.htm
> >
> > I thought this trick might be useful for storing
> >down a user's preferences as well. As far as I know
> >you don't get any persistent storage on the phone but
> >you could store something down on a server and
> >retrieve it whenever the IAppli starts up.
> >
> >-Randy
> >
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