Re: HELP Creating WWW Home pages

[David Rand <fishhead -at- ATT2 -dot- CS -dot- MANKATO -dot- MSUS -dot- EDU>]

> Karen Bachman wrote:

> Do any of you who have created home pages with hyperlinks know
> how to password protect certain links?

Then, Chet Ensign wrote:

> In order to password protect certain hypertext links, you would either have to
> build controls in on the browser side (perhaps some sort of low-level filter
> sitting behind the browser evaulating the link before letting it go through --
> a probable maintenance nightmare) or you would have to fudge some way of
> adding
> information into the message sent to the server that it could use to evaluate
> the request when it was received.


I would've replied via direct e-mail, but Karen's address was not
included in Chet's message.

Karen, you could design an HTML form to accept the password and pass it
to a Perl script, which would check the password and either create the
protected Web page or deny access.  Creating the form would be easy, but
you would need to find someone with Perl experience to write the script.

Or, you could make the file name itself the password; if users don't
know the name and location of the file (and there are no other links to
that file), they would not be able to gain access.

Just a thought. . .

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