Writing ACE/Agent-Friendly HTML
Pages
There are a few hyperlinking factors that you should consider
when writing HTML pages that will be protected by the ACE/Agent.
Failure to employ these suggestions will not prevent the
ACE/Agent from functioning, but your users might be
inconvenienced by multiple authentication prompts while their
cookies are still valid:
- If you are linking from one server to another, you should
use a consistent domain naming scheme in your <HREF>
tags. For example, if one HTML author in your
organization uses
http://sales.mydomain.com, all the
authors should be using this naming scheme.
- If you have the Domain Cookies feature
enabled, your HTML authors should use fully
qualified server and domain names when linking from one
protected server within the domain to another protected
server within the domain.
For example, use <HREF="http://sales.mydomain.com/index.html">,
not <HREF="http://sales/index.html">. This will prevent users from having to
reauthenticate unnecessarily on servers for which they
already have a domain cookie.
Customizing the WebID Authentication Forms