serving a facility servicice for users to log in their free mail providors account.

[epaphus]

Hey people,
Id like to know if it is legal to put a service on my webpage (that people can select their mail providor (for example hotmail or yahoomail) and iput their login and pass. Then my programming either done with PHP or JS will redirect their login info.

If i do it with PHP the login/pass most be redirected by the server (on the contrary of JS it is redirected by the client directly to the providor) so i have the chance to log the info sent (which iam not going to do, because i dont need) and that by this posibility existing i can get sued.

Is this correct? Anyways i planned on making a disclaimer or privacy policy.

Are there any other legal problems in doing this?

Tnx!!

[Jason]

Hi epaphus,

Many sites already provide these types of logins, so I do not see legality being a problem with it. The only potential problem would be, as you mentioned, your own personal liability if data was stolen through your system (however you also provided your own remedy for this through use of a disclaimer relieving yourself of responsibility).

However, don't you have it backwards?If it is all done client side, the data never touches your server, if it is done server side, then your server receives the data first. Anyone with me on this?

[spaz109ca]

You can get a hotmail login from a javascript site like the javascript kit or something. I also plan to put one on my site.