Attempting to Create Username/Password Protect in FrontPage

External Since: Nov 01, 2003 Posts: 54

I use a little public Javascript to create a minimal security
username/password access. It's one that requires the script to be
pasted between the <body> </body> tags. The user name = the directory
name and the password = the *.html file it contains which is the
actual page it is password protecting. It works fine for the limited
minimal security I need. Today a friend asked if I could set this up
to protect a similar minimum security page for her. When I went over
to do it I realized she was using FrontPage. When I pasted the script
between the <body> </body> tags and went to the page in a browser all
it did was show me all of the code I had edited into the file instead
of the usual username/password box. When I looked at the html code
again I noticed a lot of added coding. I take it that this might me
the FrontPage tags I've seen ref to? My question is, can I over come
this and get this to work or is there a better way for her to password
protect her desired web page? I'm not a fan of FrontPage and was
really struggling to help. I couldn't. I'm hoping you can. Thanks in
advance for any help you might share.
WMercier

External Since: Sep 19, 2003 Posts: 3499

Tha RagMan wrote:
> I use a little public Javascript to create a minimal security
> username/password access.

Impossible - even minimal is too strong a word.

> I'm not a fan of FrontPage and was
> really struggling to help.

Even fp pages can execute server side scripts.

Of course you know that you should be losing the fp nonsense, but perhaps
that's for another day.

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William Tasso