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
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: it looks cool, they just wanna boast a little bit 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
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.