Building the Portal with XSP

Now you have everything ready to start your advanced portal. To remind you of what you want to do, here is an overview. You will develop a login document in which the user can enter his name and password. This document invokes the portal document.

The portal document authenticates the user against a SQL database. If the user is known and if the password is valid, the portal document displays this user’s portal. If for any reason the user cannot be authenticated, a message is displayed stating this.

From the portal document, the user can either log out of the portal or enter the editfeeds document. The editfeeds document displays all the currently selected news-feeds, and the user can delete a news feed or add new ...

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