External form login for a Sharepoint 2010 FBA system

Question

We have a MOSS 2010 box running some web apps with a FBA system and a custom login on our designed home page. The web app is on port 85 and the port 80 holds a home page with some static content as well as the login box.

I'm trying to replace the content management by some other solution since SharePoint is a bit of an overkill for our actual needs. This means replacing the current embedded SP login form by a simple one like this:

<form action="myAuthPage.aspx" method="POST">
  <input...>
</form>

As i've been searching through the net, nothing relevant appeared. Is this kind of method possible and how can it be implemented?

Answer 1

Seems that the solution revolves around the /_vti_bin/Authentication.asmx web service. It is indeed a bit heavy.

I found some snippet that one could find useful:

http://davidsit.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/reading-a-sharepoint-list-with-php/