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I have written a custom authentication scheme that involves a sentry page, and I am now trying to make one page in the application public as a landing page for unrecoverable login errors.

I created the page and set Authentication: "Page is Public" on the page attributes, but the sentry function is still being run. The help text for this page attribute tells me:

<quote>Specifies whether this page has been defined as "public" or requires authentication. If a page is identified as public, the page can be viewed before authentication. This attribute only applies if the application uses SCHEME authentication. The application's page sentry function may access this page attribute to identify pages that do not require prior authentication to view. The implementation of the authentication scheme's page sentry function determines whether this attribute has any effect.</quote>

Could someone please supply a concrete example? I don't know how to implement the suggestion that my sentry function "access this page attribute". htmldb_util.fetch_app_item struck me as a likely candidate function, but i wouldn't know how to figure out which parameter to pass in.

As always, thanks for the help,
susan