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Ajax Logins

Thu Feb 2 10:26:00 2006

While over at the Ajaxian, I saw an interesting article from evolt.org about an Ajax-enabled login system by James Dam. There's a demo that shows how it works. The overall effect is quite nice, I think. Rather than flipping from page to page as you log in, the authentication is done from a single page. There are also some advantages from a security standpoint (most notably the password is hashed before it's transmitted to the server, unlike a forms approach). This would be excellent for blog comment forms and other places where people authenticate, but don't leave the page.
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