Verifying Username/Password...Please wait.

Discussion in 'C#' started by cancer10, Mar 7, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hi All,

    I came up with a new issue/question.

    I have seen in many sites that when I enter my username/password, it displays a new page wherein it says "Verifying Username/Password. Please wait..."


    I wonder what does it do behind the scene? Does it really take 5-6 seconds to verify a username/password? if yes, what code runs behind it? If no, then why they have to display that page?

    I think the authentication process normally does not take more than 1 second.


    What do u say about this?


    Thanx
     
    cancer10, Mar 7, 2007 IP
  2. ztoma

    ztoma Peon

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    I'd say that if the authentication really takes several seconds then all the db / back-end storage accesses would take several seconds.

    And that would make the app horrible to use.

    It think the the reason for having such "loading..." screen is quite simple:
    1. it looks cool, they just wanna boast a little bit
    2. it makes manual trial-error (brute force) approach the break the pswd a little bit more difficult since the "hacker" has to wait for a while before he can give it another shot
     
    ztoma, Mar 7, 2007 IP
  3. ccoonen

    ccoonen Well-Known Member

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    Maybe they are trying to switch you to ssl mode? (https) and have a meta refresh of 3 seconds or something? Or - it could be a large collection of logic associated with logging in - that verifies your user history, verifies login-count (essentially, protecting your account) Another thing it could be doing is hitting SOAP which takes time - or another web service for your user information on login. or... even PayFlowPro? I know in our checkouts when we connect to PayFlowPro, it takes a few seconds to process the CC info.
     
    ccoonen, Mar 13, 2007 IP