Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Deployment:
WebClient Applications

Displaying the AppServer authentication dialog

To display WebClient’s AppServer authentication dialog, use the _getAppServerAuthentication.p procedure, which has the following signature:

DEFINE INPUT        PARAMETER prompt                     AS CHARACTER. DEFINE INPUT        PARAMETER enable-persistent-checkbox AS LOGICAL. DEFINE INPUT-OUTPUT PARAMETER appserver_userid           AS CHARACTER. DEFINE INPUT-OUTPUT PARAMETER appserver_password         AS CHARACTER. DEFINE INPUT-OUTPUT PARAMETER appserver_info             AS CHARACTER. DEFINE INPUT-OUTPUT PARAMETER persistent                 AS LOGICAL. DEFINE OUTPUT       PARAMETER choseOK                    AS LOGICAL.

Use the _getAppServerAuthentication.p procedure if the codebase and business logic reside on the same AppServer or share the same authorization information and:

Authentication is required only at the AppServer and not at the AIA Web server (or you are not using AIA).

Or:

Authentication is required at AIA and at the AppServer, but AIA authorization information is set in the security cache and thus available in CODEBASE-LOCATOR:URL-USERID and CODEBASE-LOCATOR:URL-PASSWORD.
Note: In this case, you might instead call _getAIAandAppServerAuthentication.p, passing in the known values and allowing the end user to fill in the missing values.

To invoke the _getAppServerAuthentication.p procedure, call it with a partially qualified pathname that starts with the wcadd directory, as in the following code fragment:

RUN wcadd/_getAppServerAuthentication.p(parameter-list).