Global variables on web

[Mircea Serban]

Hi!


I have a web app where users authenticate with username and password keept in a database.(they don't have an ID)
After user login how can I store the username wich was used and use it in multiple design elements (forms,agents, pages)
I don't want transmit it by URL or use cookies, so I need a secure way to achieve that.

Please help

Thanks
Mircea Serban

[Rob Green]

this article could interest you, since you are saying njet to cookies and urls regarding the security aspect. Why? Work with a session ID or a given cookie containing the user/pw in an encrypted form.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/today.nsf/f01245ebfc115aaf8525661a006b86b9/96789cfede43f3a485256989006ec613?OpenDocument

I wonder what other solutions you may think of....Http is a connectionless protocol, so using this protocol you dont have much  alternatives to reidentify users.