Automatic login?
NaSPA1 - January 29, 2005 - 02:46
Hi all! Was wondering if anyone has worked out a way to provide an "automatic login" based on ip address, user-agent, etc. What I'm trying to do is provide a way for search engines to "login" to the site automatically so they can spider the "members" version of content.
Thanks!
Radi
I second this
I second this! This is a basic feature needed urgently!
http://drupal.org/node/16544
Search Engine Auto-Login
I have it working for the most part on my site. Just need to shake it down a bit more and will see about posting as a project here.
Radi Shourbaji
http://radi-shourbaji.profconnect.org
If your webserver supports
If your webserver supports such a feature, you could use the webserver_auth module to identify the current user.
htaccess does not allow user=ip address
I don't see how this will be possible.
The module you point out to allows me to add users who are part of my unix users (meaning that they have a .htpassword file). But they still need the password.
From what I have read so far the only way to allow an IP address to have access is through changing:
# Protect files and directories from prying eyes:<Files ~ "(\.(conf|inc|module|pl|sh|sql|theme|engine|xtmpl)|Entries|Repositories|Root|scripts|updates)$">
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from <address>
</Files>
This unfortunately will give complete access to the IP address which I do not want.
You see, for the Google News spider (which has no cookie system) to have access to my site I rather link their IPaddress to a user and set the permissions there.
If you have any ideas, they are welcome.
Please let me know
Please let me know. Because I really want the guys at Google News to be able to have access to my website.
Regards,
Sergio
Why would you want search
Why would you want search engines indexing content thats only available when users register on your site. The average user would more likly be confused or disappointed than register to see the content. The only advantage i see from getting member only content indexed is the small amount of light search engines will shed onto your internet wide user base.
Google News
Indeed restricting a first click is annoying. But you can allow content that is say one day old available in your site.
This is how for example the Financial Times does.
Users who are looking for specific information will see that they can get this news in your site. It's marketing to the right person who is looking for that specific content.
Automatic login to give access to Google news
Radi,
I finally found the answer to the problem, this module does the trick.
By inserting the IP address on the authmap table and refering it to a user number, example for uid 7 and IP address 123.34.234.21:
aid uid authname module
1 7 123.34.234.21 loginip
The IP address will be logged as the user you want to.
Hope this helps! ;-)
<?php
function loginip_init() {
global $user;
if ($user->uid) {
//do nothing because user is already logged into Drupal
}
else {
{
// user is logged into webserver.
$user = user_external_load($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]);
}
}
function loginip_help($section) {
$output ="";
switch ($section) {
case 'admin/help#loginip_':
break;
case 'admin/modules#description':
$output .= t("Login through IP address");
break;
}
return $output;
}
?>
quite insecure
I will be ale to log into that site without any problems, by simply faking my IP. limiting only on IP is really not very secure.
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Next time, please consider filing a support request.
[Bèr Kessels | Drupal services www.webschuur.com]
you /do/ nkow that letting in search engines and not others,
violates a lot of conventions, most prominent of all the "convention of being honoust" ;) ?
http://www.google.be/intl/en/webmasters/guidelines.html , look near the bottom....
you can call me a purist if you want :)
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Next time, please consider filing a support request.
[Bèr Kessels | Drupal services www.webschuur.com]
Google News
Ber,
You have a point!
I should not want to decieve Google to get traffic. But why does Google News does not keep a cache while Google does?
Simply because other sites restrict the content to subscribed users at a specific point in time.
However, after some experience, I have decided to upgrade the node access accordingly so that there is open access only in a specific moment of the story instead of using the IP address.
Sergio
Google News allows special access to crawlers
Ber,
BTW this is what Google wrote back when they could not access my site:
ip_login module
Hi, I've made a module to allow login by IP Address.
See: http://drupal.org/project/ip_login
cheers,
DT
Nice script
hi,
Thanks for the script - though i am not using this script - but it gave me lots of idea. I needed something similar in my environment
Vinay Yadav
PHP / Drupal Developer
http://www.vinayras.com
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