Members Only Area Question

message from AlanShaw on 21 Jul 2004

I need to add a 'Members Only Aera' to an existing website, in order to keep
the information on those pages secure and to prevent them from being
downloaded, where do I upload these pages too?

I have a secure 'data folder' on my host server which currently hold my
membership database, do I upload the pages into this?

If they are uploaded with my regular pages, how do you stop people downloading
the pages and viewing the content?

Regards
Alan

Julian Roberts replied to AlanShaw on 21 Jul 2004

You can use the in-built User Authentication behaviours. By getting people
to log in, you can then protect pages within the site.

AlanShaw replied to Julian Roberts on 21 Jul 2004

Hi Julian

Me again, more questions.

So if I upload it with my regular pages, what stops people downloading it into DW or Frontpage and reading the restricted content?

Regards
Alan

CarlGrint replied to AlanShaw on 21 Jul 2004

If you use Login to access the area, then only those with a Username and
Password would be able to view the page, and as the page will be served using
either ASP/PHP/.Net etc, when the browser shows the page, only the HTML is
shown on the page, any information/data that is hidden via say an IF statement
will not show, even if the page is downloaded, as the downloaded page will only
contain that which was viewed in the browser, not the restricted info.

Originally posted by: AlanShaw
Hi Julian

Me again, more questions.

So if I upload it with my regular pages, what stops people downloading it into
DW or Frontpage and reading the restricted content?

Regards
Alan

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