Using ColdFusion to Control Access
The rest of this chapter discusses how to build your own form-based security mechanism. In general, putting such a mechanism in place requires three basic steps:
- Deciding which pages or information should be password-protected
- Creating a login page and verifying the user name and password
- Restricting access to pages or information based on who the user is, either using a homegrown Session-Based mechanism, or with the <cflogin> framework
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