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I'm trying to figure out a way to design a page that you need a password to enter. Basicly it's for my clients to preview their videos on my site but I
don't want the whole world looking at it and being able to download the content either. Is there a simple way to do this?

thanks!

Not in Javascript. Since all the code is downloadable and viewable, any password you create would be simple to crack. I suggest looking in to Perl, PHP, Python, or any other server-side method of doing this.

Server-Side Scripting - Oh my!

Also, if your server is Apache-based, you should be able to password-restrict directories and files with some sort of configuration file. I think ".htaccess" is what you're looking for, though because of my complete and utter lack of knowledge of Apache, I cannot help more there. (EDIT: Aha, kuckus has the information you desire.)

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

(Edited by Iron Wallaby on 09-08-2004 06:40)

If you're allowed to create .htaccess / .htpasswd files on your server they'd be the option I'd go for.

Try this:
http://gurusnetwork.com/tutorial/htaccess/

or Google for a search for tutorials which esplain how to do it when you don't have telnet access to the server - it's the same procedure, basically, then; you'll just have to use paths you can access via FTP and upload the files that way.

kuckus

Bummer, not to familiar with that stuff... any other suggestions? What would be the easiest PHP security screen if you could point to one?

There is one easy way to password protect your files using nothing but JavaScript. It's not very secure though...

function CheckPass(pass){

  window.location="myfiles/"+pass+".htm"

}

The pass is simply the name of the file.
To make this effective you have to place a blank index.htm file in the directory of your "protected" pages or
it'll be easy to crack it.

/TwoD

Oh, come on! Apache: Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control, PHP: HTTP authentication with PHP.

Anything secure needs serverside authentication, by the HTTP AUTH method or other methods.

--
var Liorean = {
prototype: XHTMLGuru.prototype,
abode: "http://codingforums.com/",
profile: "http://codingforums.com/member.php?u=5798"};

I said it wasn't very secure.
But since the question was posted in the DHTML/JavaScript section,
I gave an example of what's possible with JS, be it good or bad...

/TwoD

Thanks guys!