Re: restricting acces to files

Goetz Lohmann schrieb: > Shams schrieb: > >>Hi, >> >>i've written a secure PHP login script which will allow users to login to a >>directory such as this: >> >>smezone.com/members/index.php >> >>however, how do I restrict people from accessing HTML files in that >>directory (which they can easily do so by typing the URL into their >>browser), such as: >> >>smezone.com/members/document1.html >> >>? >> >>Since its a regular HTML files (and we have lots), I can't check whether the >>user has a valid session as I would do in a PHP file. >> > maybe take a look at: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/05/index2a_page3.html?tw=programming but note that normaly $PHP_AUTH_PW is the password in clear text, but the .htaccess file stores it as a md5 key! -- @ Goetz Lohmann, Germany | Web-Developer & Sys-Admin \/ ------------------------------------------------------ () He's the fellow that people wonder what he does and || why the company needs him, until he goes on vacation.