June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
368 pages
8h 31m
English
Another authentication mechanism you will see used frequently is the use of special links. Imagine we have a WordPress page in which we have included a link to a Moodle course:
http://moodle313.localhost/course/view.php?id=6.
We could add to this some extra user details: http://moodle313.localhost/course/view.php?id=6&user=admin&email=admin%40example.com.
Of course, passing user details in this way is not particularly secure so we could encrypt this extra data. There is also an architectural issue: this kind of link is called an HTTP GET and GET is all about retrieving data. We want to send user data over to Moodle to allow for automatic authentication. So it would be better to encrypt the user data and, rather ...
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