The Password Gate - what it is & what it isn't
This image shows you what the Password Gate does. Your web site is made of 'public' pages - anyone can view them while visiting your site.
And there is a gateway through which your visitors must pass before they can see the 'private' pages on your web site. Those are the pages behind the Password Gate.
If you want all of your site behind the Password Gate, then make the very first page of your site (usually index.html) the page with the Password and user name entry code from Bravenet.
Remember you must not have any links from your 'public' pages to your 'protected' pages or clicking those links will bypass the Password Gate!!
Password Gate is not a page protection method, it's just access control. It stops people visiting specified parts of your web site unless they have been given the password and number necessary to successfully log in through the gate.
The Password Gate does not prevent people from visiting your 'private pages' if they know the exact address of the page (the full URL).
The Terms of Service for some *free* webspace services do not allow password protected content - just letting you know :)
This image shows you what the Password Gate does. Your web site is made of 'public' pages - anyone can view them while visiting your site. And there is a gateway through which your visitors must pass before they can see the 'private' pages on your web site. Those are the pages behind the Password Gate.
If you want all of your site behind the Password Gate, then make the very first page of your site (usually index.html) the page with the Password and user name entry code from Bravenet.
Remember you must not have any links from your 'public' pages to your 'protected' pages or clicking those links will bypass the Password Gate!!
Password Gate is not a page protection method, it's just access control. It stops people visiting specified parts of your web site unless they have been given the password and number necessary to successfully log in through the gate.
The Password Gate does not prevent people from visiting your 'private pages' if they know the exact address of the page (the full URL).
The Terms of Service for some *free* webspace services do not allow password protected content - just letting you know :)
The Password Gate - protecting pages from anywhere
Only read on if you have some understanding of what frames are and what javascript is (not how to program with javascript, just know what it can do). What follows is a simple demonstration of what can be done ... but there's a little more to it than pasting in some code. You need to understand html and be able to add a script snippet to the pages you want to protect.
OK, you can't say I didn't warn you. If you have a page with some javascript on it, and you have an error in the javascript, and you have an error trap .... you can make the error trap do whatever you want. And that can include sending visitors to anywhere - including your site's Password Gate page or giving a warning about access control.
Since seeing is believing, you can see a short demonstration of exactly this kind of Password Gate use with access protection. Just try this using visitor as your name and 123 as the password:
Only read on if you have some understanding of what frames are and what javascript is (not how to program with javascript, just know what it can do). What follows is a simple demonstration of what can be done ... but there's a little more to it than pasting in some code. You need to understand html and be able to add a script snippet to the pages you want to protect.
OK, you can't say I didn't warn you. If you have a page with some javascript on it, and you have an error in the javascript, and you have an error trap .... you can make the error trap do whatever you want. And that can include sending visitors to anywhere - including your site's Password Gate page or giving a warning about access control.
Since seeing is believing, you can see a short demonstration of exactly this kind of Password Gate use with access protection. Just try this using visitor as your name and 123 as the password:
