Security | Inside Oracle APEX by Patrick Wolf

Is your Oracle APEX session timing out?

6. March 2009

You have upgraded to Oracle APEX 3.2 and are getting kicked out of your Oracle APEX Builder each time you are going back to your browser window after you have worked on something else for some time? For the last few days I had this problem quite often and it annoyed me a little bit. [...]

Two new Oracle APEX whitepapers

29. July 2008

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Ok, they are not brand new anymore, they have already been released last month. But in case you are not reading David Peake’s blog or checking regularly the Oracle APEX website on OTN, the APEX team has published the following two new whitepapers: NTLM Authentication (a PL/SQL only solution) and Oracle APEX with RAC (Real Application Cluster) Check [...]

Using Windows Login Credentials for Single Sign On (NTLM authentication)

22. March 2008

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Most users are lacy and don’t want to enter login credentials each time they start up an Oracle APEX application. They tell you, “Hey I have already logged in into my computer, can’t you use that information for the APEX application?”. Sure we can! The NTLM protocol is one way to do that. Instructions on how to integrate [...]

Warning: DBMS_LDAP.simple_bind_s/ APEX_LDAP.authenticate and NULL password

10. January 2008

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Just came across a very strange behavior of the DBMS_LDAP.simple_bind_s and APEX_LDAP.authenticate procedure which I used to do a basic LDAP authentication against our MS Active Directory server. I used the following simple test code

Adding a CAPTCHA to your Oracle APEX application

6. September 2007

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Haven’t had the requirement to add one in my applications until now, but after reading Dan’s posting about integrating reCAPTCHA with Oracle SSO, I thought that shouldn’t be to hard to integrate into an Oracle Application Express (APEX) application too! A nice challenge for the evening I know that there are some similar solutions [...]

Oracle APEX related articles you should read

18. May 2007

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Lately a few Oracle APEX related articles have been published which you should read. John Scott posted a whitepaper about “APEX – Delivering Pages in 3 Seconds or Less” which he held on Colab 07 in Las Vegas. Dimitri Gielis also posted the whitepaper of his presentation about “APEX by Example: Shared Components“. The security section of the [...]

Using Google Account for APEX authentication

30. January 2007

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Read a very interesting posting on Przemek Piotrowski blog about using the Google Account credentials for an APEX application login. The method described uses the Google Account Client Login API for verifying the user. More details at Application Express user authentication using Google Account. I think that’s a good example of the flexibility of APEX to adapt to [...]

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