Allow Linking only from a certain page?

[clarkmurray]

I'm getting ready to release a training product, and I want only the customers to be able to access certain information on my website. The customer would bring up an html page from his hard drive and click on a link. This doesn't have to be super tight security and I don't want to add the administrative overhead of assigning individual logins and passwords. I just want something to keep the url from getting passed around.

I was thinking of using .htaccess referer coding even though I know that can be easily spoofed. However, I can't figure out how to add referer info to the request header that would be generated by clicking on the link from the page on the hard drive. Is there a way to do that? Or is there a better way that's not too involved? I have to keep this simple.

 

[traingamer]

The customer would bring up an html page from his hard drive and click on a link. This doesn't have to be super tight security and I don't want to add the administrative overhead of assigning individual logins and passwords. I just want something to keep the url from getting passed around.

There is no foolproof way to keep a url from getting passed around.

If you're not utilizing some server side code (php; asp; whatever) or a passworded directory structure, there is no way to guarantee security. (If the page is out there as html, it's out there for everybody.)



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