Re: Deadlock -- a Webmaster's Tool -- password protection

On May 8, 4:51 am, "davemcmurt...@xxxxxxxxx" <davemcmurt...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On May 7, 11:31 pm, Rick Youngman <wl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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http://users.commspeed.net/wlbbs/deadlock.zip

Any feedback to this script is welcome.

Actually, the more I look at this, the more confused I become.  I
simply must be misunderstanding what you're trying to do.  The first
thing I noticed is that the protected page your script generates
contains the original content in plain text for anyone to read if they
simply view the page source.  The second thing I noticed is that as
best I can tell, any password should work, so if someone doesn't want
to waste a few mouse clicks to view the source, they could just enter
any password and view the protected text.

I must be completely misunderstanding what this is supposed to do,
especially considering that this has nothing to do with Commodore, and
there are already very well-established ways to password-protect a
website that actually work.

Thanks,

Dave



Did you read the instructions ???

1. copy and paste original html code into box 1
2. press Deadlock Button
3. copy and paste encrypted html code that appears in box 2 to a NEW
document.
4. name that document to whatever you want ( keep-out.html )
5. from now on keep-out.html can only be viewed with the correct
password, bypassing the password or entering the wrong password only
produces scrambled random charaters. Likewise, viewing the source code
does the same.

And yes, there are many ways to password pages, but most require some
sort of server side program to run ( cgi, php,asp scripts ect. )
This script requires no server side intervention, and can be used
offline even, with any java enabled web browser.

Like I said in the original post, nearly everyone who is supporting C=
on the internet, is using the web to do it.
So this is a tool for them, that does not require any external
program, to use it.

Rick

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