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Is there a way to password protect HTML pages without using a server side language?

I have a series of interlinked web pages, and I want to restrict access to these pages by asking the user to provide a login and password. However, my hosting account currently does not provide any facility for server side scripting - is there any way I can accomplish this objective using only client side scripts?

I was wondering how the following program works -

http://www.myzips.com/software/HTML-Password.phtml

Clarification: Thanks for your inputs. However, if I am configuring the web server, then is there a possibility of the user entering an username and password?

Solution

  • There is no way to create a secure clientside script. If the user has access to it, it's insecure.

    If your host is running apache you can secure folders using .htaccess, on IIS you can do the same through directory security.