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Mark Maden
Mark Maden

Reputation: 498

Xpages accessing data on a database which does not allow anonymous access

I have an Internet facing Domino server in our DMZ on which customers log support requests, the customer is required to authenticate, ie. anonymous access is not available. I have developed internal 'wallboards & dashboards' for our support staff, which need to be displayed using web browsers. To allow the wallboard/dashboard web pages to open without authentication I point them at a replica of the database on the second 'internal' server, I do not force a 'consistent access control list' between the replicas and allow Anonymous access to this replica. My problem being that replication across the servers is every 20 mins, so the wallboards are up to 20 minutes behind. I cannot point my wallboard 'Computed Fields' etc at the 'live' database in the DMZ as it throws an error presumably because there is no authentication.

Typical error:

Error while executing JavaScript computed expression
Script interpreter error, line=1, col=57: 'db.getView().getAllEntries()' is null
JavaScript code
1: return db.getView("$FaultStatsDayOpen").getAllEntries().getCount().toFixed();

I imagine I have some of the concepts wrong of how to achieve this. But basically I need XPages from the internal server to be able to retrieve data from views and documents on the DMZ server even though it does not allow Anonymous access.

I can't seem to find this on any of the forums, so any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 305

Answers (1)

Paul Stephen Withers
Paul Stephen Withers

Reputation: 15729

sessionAsSigner allows the code to access databases on any servers in the same domain using the access of the ID signing the XPage. Remember that all design elements included in the XPage need to be signed by the same ID.

If the server is in another domain, you'll need to replicate the database across a server in the same domain in order to access it.

Upvotes: 8

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