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    Posted: 03-January-2013 at 8:55am
I am using ProductCart to sell a virtual product that is accessible via a website external to ProductCart.  I want to use ProductCart login / account information for access to both ProductCart and the external website where customers can access their purchases. 
Looking for any suggestions or examples to extend the ProductCart login credentials to this external website.
 
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From your description, I believe the key here is to be able to enforce the current session ID and it's associated variables to the second site.  I ran across a site recently that actually offered such a script. Kicking myself for not making a note of it though.  It will likely come back to me - it's offered by someone who provides another script that we use, and when I recall this, I'll post here.
 
In the mean time, is it really necessary for the product to ONLY appear on the 2nd site?
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Hi and thanks for the quick feedback.  I believe it is necessary to move to another site.  Partly due to basic ProductCart environment limitations (without major customization), other configuration management needs, and ultimately the ability to shut down ProductCart for maintenance etc. while still providing customers access to their content.
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Another site or another cart?  I'm not sure how to interpret your reply.  Could I help you work through what you're thinking about here?
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Hi, do you need to provide downloadable products? If so see http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/productcart/products_adding_new#downloadable_settings  
 
Editing ProductCart Code?

See WIKI Guidelines for Editing ProductCart's ASP Source Code
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Sorry for not being clear.  I am using ProductCart to sell "products" that customers will access on-line on a website external to ProductCart.  Basically, I am using product to manage the eCommerce functionality, which does not support after sale requirements.  These after sale requirements need to be implemented on a custom website.  However, access to the custom website needs to be controled through the users account and would like to make this seemless with ProductCart login credentials.
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Thanks for the reply but no, this is not what is needed.  Customers will access "products" on custom website.
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I recommend you engage a developer to assist with this.  Your requirement seems sufficiently complex to be difficult to work out the details here in the forum. 
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Seems to me that the best way to accomplish this would be to develop a custom script to authenticate the login request using PC's RC4 encryption. This script would then be hit via XMLHTTP by the external site and return an appropriate message: "Success" (not seen by user), "Email address not found", or "Email and password combination not matched".

The external site could authenticate this using JavaScript, so it wouldn't matter what language it is scripted in.

It's all rather simple, but as Greg points out, it would require a developer with sufficient understanding of these things.
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Sean, Greg, thanks for the feedback and suggestions so far.  I will discuss suggestions above with my developer.  Ultimately I was hoping to find someone who implemented with ProductCart with a specific example but so far does not appear anyone has implmented in this way (at least publically) so far.
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