(keitai-l) Re: Auto-Login for Vodafone Phones

From: Alex Shinn <foof_at_synthcode.com>
Date: 10/13/05
Message-ID: <868xwydwy6.wl@lain.inunome.com>
At Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:16:46 +0900 (JST), Curt Sampson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Kyle Barrow wrote:
> 
> > Is the terminal ID good enough? It is included in the user agent:
> > http://developers.vodafone.jp/dp/tool_dl/web/useragent.php
> 
> That's perfect! However, it's only available in some user agents; it
> appears to depend on the age of the phone, among other things.

Another strategy some sites use is to let the user create a login page
with their ID information when they first signup/login, and then have
them bookmark that page or add it to their favorites (bookmark is just
a link which would need to encode the info in the URL, favorites saves
the page as a cached copy in the phone, which could also put arbitrary
information in a FORM).  If using the FORM they'd just load the page
and click submit, otherwise with a bookmark they'd directly access the
login page.  The FORM has the advantage that you can store more
information, including large private keys, and can optionally have the
user enter a short numeric password (with user ID already known) for
improved security with little loss in convenience.

This is nice because it works the same on all keitai.

-- 
Alex
Received on Thu Oct 13 04:31:38 2005