Posted by Mike on 01/20/08 20:10

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Mike wrote:
>> I have a project i am not sure how to achieve the desired results. I need
>> some advice/direction if anyone can help.
>>
>> I have a domain name. Under that domain lots of individual websites:
>>
>> ??????.com
>> ??????.com/website1
>> ??????.com/website2
>> ??????.com/website3
>>
>> 1) The domain home page has a login screen. Depending on the username and
>> password the user is taken to the relavent website index page.
>> This would all work fine i could specifiy the user/password and
>> corresponding website directory in a mysql table
>>
>> THE DILEMA - The websites are large and always being updated therefore i
>> cannot add corresponding (session) php code to every html webpage within
>> the websites. Therefore how can I stop a user copying and pasting a
>> external link to one of these pages or files located within the website
>> i.e. by passing the login.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> TIA
>>
>>
>>
>
> You can't. If a page doesn't check to see if the user is logged in, there
> is no way you can prevent someone from directly linking to that page.
>


Jerry

Is there not a way to somehow restrict by folder. i.e. sessions which are
related to the folder and not the files within?

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