Web Based Ill Forms... -Reply

[Thomas McMillan Grant Bennett]

Below is documentation that I used succesfully to password a Web page on
a local server.  The server was NCSA compatible, the win 3.1
predecessor(HTTPD) to O'Rielly's W95 server.

Simple protection by password
This document  is only accessible to user fido with password bones.
1) Create a text file named #haccess.ctl  in the directory that contains
the document  to be secure.
2) Contents of the textfile:

AuthUserFile c:/httpd/conf/authusr.pwd
AuthGroupFile c:/httpd/conf/empty.pwd
AuthName Example
AuthType Basic

<Limit GET>
require user fido
</LIMIT>

3)The password file authusr.pwd has to be created in the c:/httpd/conf/
directory using password software that should have come with your web
server I expect.

The passwordonly needs to be used once in a session .  The browser has
to be exited to reset the need of using a password.

Thomas Bennett


Dan Lester wrote:

> We're working on getting the forms (currently on a draft page
> on our intranet, not visible outside of library) to do that.  But,
> we aren't there yet, and none of us are very CGI/Perl/etc
> experienced. We will be getting the content put directly into
> Access97, the database that is becoming library and campus
> standard.
>
> Any comments, input, suggestions, URLs, etc, appreciated.
> Hope all will reply to list.  And now I'm off to check the
> web4lib pages at Berkeley.
>
> thanks
>
> dan
>
> Dan Lester, Network Information Coordinator
> Boise State University Library, Boise, Idaho, 83725 USA
> voice: 208-385-1235   fax:  208-385-1394
> dlester at bsu.idbsu.edu     OR    alileste at idbsu.idbsu.edu
> Cyclops' Internet Toolbox:    http://cyclops.idbsu.edu
> "How can one fool make another wise?"   Kansas, 1979.



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