How do I prevent Access Unless Logged On

[BigM]

Hi All,

I am wanting to prevent people from accessing my application unless they have visited a page which is protected by an ACL (meaning they must have a username and password). How do I stop them cutting and pasting a URL from a previous visit which will take them past my ACL protected page.

Thanks

 

[iza]

it's better to do that on the SERVER side
now if you can only play client side, an easy solution is to use a frameset with just one frame : then the url doesn't change (as it's the frameset one) - ok it doesn't prevent from seeing the frame properties and then copy/paste its adress in the adress bar, but it's the only solution that doesn't require either some (jscript??) code on every page or server side configuration

 

[jaredn]

maybe you can test against the document.referrer property (client-side):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/referrer.asp

jared@aauser.com