Re: password protect web files
From: Ray Cole (gtg999e@prism.gatech.edu)Date: 05/01/02
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From: "Ray Cole" <gtg999e@prism.gatech.edu> Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 11:01:33 -0400
Yes, the ISP can control this by setting the security on you directory under
IIS. Using this you can specify which users/groups of users can access
anything in the directory. If a request is made from an unauthenticated
browser, then the web server will ask for a username/password before allow
the browser to access the file.
To be extra secure you should also use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) because
otherwise, basic authentication will send the password unencrypted along the
internet and anyone listening in could then gain access to your web files.
Depends on how paranoid you want to be...
"Brian B" <brianb@ixpres.com> wrote in message
news:3c749057.14614039@news.ixpres.com...
> 2/20/02
>
> Hello All:
>
> I run Windows 98 on my machine,
> and my ISP runs Windows NT 4.0.
> I want to upload 10 web pages and
> 20 images (gifs), but I want to make
> each file password protected (in-
> cluding the gif images that will
> "sit next" to the web pages on my
> directory, after their upload). Addi-
> tionally, I'd like to make it so
> no one can download these files
> from the internet.
>
> I'm familiar (a bit) with the CGI
> scripts that can be executed through
> a "form" submission (a password form).
> But, I am not happy with the thought that
> my web pages would be sitting all alone,
> on my ISP's directory, waiting for a
> browser to load in their URL address loca-
> ions. I want something a bit more secure,
> since the images involved are nice
> pieces of (copyright-protected) work,
> and will have an exclusive audience.
>
> Can my ISP web server control
> who accesses my web pages dir-
> ectly? Is it possible that the server
> can make it so every browser attempting
> to access the URL addresses (of my files)
> would immediately be prompted for user
> name and/or password? (I have heard of
> this, but I'm a newbie with with web
> servers!)
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Brian B
>
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