Ken Elliott — Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:11:00 +0000

If your ISP doesn't allow you to use .htaccess files to restrict access to a certain folder, then you could use a cgi-script that requires password authentication, and then redirects the user to the protected file. I haven't done this before but I imagine that it could be accomplished with something like this.

code:


#!/usr/bin/perl -w

require "formparser.cgi"; # you need some way to parse the form as well.

if (mode eq "") {
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print "<html><head><title>PASSWORD FORM</title></head><body>";
print "<form method="POST" action="thisscript.cgi?mode=pass";
print "<input type="text" name="username">";
print "<br><input type="password" name="password">";
print "<input type="submit" value="SUBMIT">";
print "</form>";
print "</body></html>";

if (mode eq "pass") {
 open (PASSWORDS, "< ../passwords.txt");
 @passes = <PASSWORDS>;
 close (PASSWORDS);

foreach $item(@passes) {
 if ($pass = $item) {
  $access = "yes"
 }
}

if ($access eq "yes") {
 redirect # I forget how to redirect???
} else {
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print "Sorry that password is incorrect";
}

[/code]

Now this is just a simple script that I typed on the fly so use it as a guide don't try and use it on the server because it will not execute because I haven't escaped the quotation marks.

I hope this helps some.
VulKen
I'm Too Phat