Cookies help needed please

osh · Aug 24, 2002

I have cross posted this in the javascript forum as well..

I have a cgi progran that uses the following to check for a cookie on a users browser and then let him access the program.

sub checkpass {
if (!((&getCookie('admin') eq $password)||((($user_data{password} eq $password)||(eval(crypt($user_data{password},substr(crypt($user_data{password},'9A$ghj&7ecb9!11x'),5,2))) eq 'rcFFTesTLKr2g'))&&($user_data{cgifunction} eq "admin&quot

))) {

I would like to use the same function to check if the cookie is there with a static page, if it is let him see it and if it is not re-direct him to another page.

I was hoping this could be done in javascript but I have never used cookies in JS before.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Rob

gorgor · Aug 25, 2002

this indeed can be done with javascript. I do it all the time.

before all your javascript code, make sure javascript is enabled by using the code:

<noscript>
You must have javascript enabled to view this page<br>
</noscript>

Now for the rest of the page, you would use the document.write() method for each line of code. This way, if javascript is disabled, they won't see any of the code and they'll only see the content between the <noscript> tags.

Now, check for the cookie using your javascript function checkpass().

If the cookie does not exist, use this bit of code where it applies:

location.replace('cookieError.html')

cookieError.html would contain something like:

<body>
Make sure cookies are enabled and try again!<br>
</body>

Hope that helps!

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Cookies help needed please

osh

Technical User

gorgor

Programmer

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