Thank you Allen for the comments
Carlos
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Date: Saturday, January 01, 2000 1:11 PM
Subject: [REBOL] Simple Password Checking Re:(3)
>Hi Carlos,
>
>Since you have so many limitations on the server side, here are my
>suggestions. These won't give you a great deal of security, but will help
>limit access to the files and won't require the recipient to have a copy of
>REBOL..
>
>1. Create a page with the default file name ie index.htm or whatever, this
>is to prevent directory browsing.
>2. Place files in this directory.
>3. Email the filename & paths to those who are allowed to access these
files
>4. Rename the files once a week or so to help control who has access.
>
>Use REBOL to automate as much of the above as you like...
>
>Cheers,
>
>Allen K
>
>
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>Sent: Thursday, January 01, 1998 11:04 PM
>Subject: [REBOL] Simple Password Checking Re:(2)
>
>
>Thank you Ted for your comments but actually I have no such a web server
>where I can manipulate permissions and so on. My website is hosted by some
>guys I don't even know but don't allow CGI scriptting on their server.
>
>I need to find ways that don't envolve server side solutions to handle
>protection file stuff.
>
>It seems that only with a Java Applet I could do that. Am I wrong?
>
>
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Thursday, December 30, 1999 5:13 PM
>Subject: [REBOL] Simple Password Checking Re:
>
>
> Why don't you want them to enter their own username and password?
>
> If that's not a critical requirement, and if you're using an Apache Web
>server, you should be able to do this just by editing a permissions file in
>whatever directories you want to protect. The browser would then prompt for
>the username and password automatically, and there is nothing else to do.
>Under Windows, I think if their desktoip login name/password matches a
>Website user/password, they might not be prompted at all, but I would have
>to check that.
>
> Another approach would be to use a script that checked the password in
>an internal file, and then passed them the URL to download from a secret
>directory on your server. If you didn't want them to bother with a password
>the second time, from the same location, you could save the user
information
>in a cookie.
>
> In either case, they wouldn't need REBOL on their machines. It can all
>be handled server side. Entering the username/password at least once seems
>simpler than getting people to install REBOL to run one script.
>
> If this is a critical requirement for same reason, another idea might
be
>to distribute a HTML page with their username and password embedded in a
>"click me" hyperlink, which would then send this to a server-side script
>(see approach /2).
>
> -Ted.
>
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>
> On 12/30/1999 at 3:28 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Rebols,
>
> I'm fighting against the idea of having to learn Perl or Java just
>to get this small project:
>
> I'm considering the possibility of having a script on my web site
>that could grant permission to some users to download files according to
the
>rights they have.
>
> The idea is to distribute REBOL.EXE to the people I want to access
>my web site so they can login without having to enter USERNAME & PASSWORD.
>
> All they have to do is to run this script that probably will have
to
>have their username & password values inside it and also what files each
>user can download.
>
> Since username and password match, the script will write on user's
>machine their files.
>
> Is it possible?
>
> Does anyone here would like to make me a draft of this in REBOL?
>Some code I could use as a start point, since I'm a beginner.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Happy New Year to you all from Brazil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Carlos
>
>
