My university doesn't support the POST cgi method (I know, it's crazy), and I was hoping to be able to have a system where a user can have a username and password and log in securely. Is this even possible?
If it's not, how would you do it with POST? Just out of curiosity.
Cheers!
You can actually do it all with GET methods.  However, you'll want to use a full challenge response protocol for the logins.  (You can hash on the client side using javascript.  You just need to send out a unique challenge each time.)  You'll also want to use SSL to ensure that no one can see the strings as they go across.
In some senses there's no real security difference between GET and POST requests as they both go across in plaintext, in other senses and in practice... GET is are a hell of a lot easier to intercept and is all over most people's logs and your web browser's history. :)
(Or as suggested by the other posters, use a different method entirely like HTTP auth, digest auth or some higher level authentication scheme like AD, LDAP, kerberos or shib.  However I kinda assumed that if you didn't have POST you wouldn't have these either.)
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