Is there a way to password protect HTML pages without using a server side language?

Question

I have a series of interlinked web pages, and I want to restrict access to these pages by asking the user to provide a login and password. However, my hosting account curren

Answer 1

Yes it is possible but it's not very pretty or even very good.

• Your index page has an empty div where your restricted content will go.
• On page load or a link being clicked, a prompt (window.prompt) asks for your password.
• Your password is hashed and compared to a stored hash ( or array of hashes ) of the correct password in your script.
• If you have a match you load the content into the div via AJAX
• You could store the password in a cookie so it isn't prompted for each time ( not very secure but then this isn't a very secure system )

• You're still not all that secure because the filenames of the pages you'll be loading will be visible in your script but it might keep a very casual surfer out.
• You could obfusticate the urls thereby requiring some JavaScript knowledge to view. e.g rot13

You will need a JavaScript hashing script