Password protecting web pages?

[markdmac]

I found the following sample script code:

	<script type="text/javascript">
		var pw =prompt('Please Enter a Password to View Protected Content: ','');
 			if (pw != 'XYZ') top.location = 'index.html';</script>

I have a need to password protect some pages and would like to have support for both username and password. Tight security is not a real issue, we just want to use this to encourage people to register on the site.

Is there a way to edit the above sample so it will accept input for both a user name and a password?

Next step is I would like the user to only be prompted once for a group of pages. So I assume I require the use of a cookie.

I know how to do this easily with ASP code, but my customer is not using a Windows Web Server.

Many thanks for any assistance, JavaScript is not my area of expertise, vbscript is and the customers server prevents me from leveraging my vbscript knowledge.

 

[markdmac]

Thanks again dwarfthrower. I made the suggested changes but the result remains the same. I just want to be sure I am using the right code on the page as well. I'm still using:

<script type="text/javascript"> 
if (!checkSession() || !passwordValidated())
  {
  window.top.location.href="login.html";
  } 
</script>

I have that code in the header section of the page.


I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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[trollacious]

Since passwordValidated() can't return false, you could removed that from the conditional.

Then, before checkSession() returns false, it's already changed the URL, so that part of the conditional won't do anything.

Under what conditions do you want your page to redirect to the login page?

Lee