Simple html form question

Pinky · Dec 29, 2008

Hi All,

I'm putting the finishing touches on my new business webpage. I'm going to be offering remote computer support via a Ultra VNC download package, but I don't want people to just be able to click a link as the VNC software will prompt me at my computer. Instead I would like to put a single hurtle in their path to prevent the link from immediately appearing, could even be a preset number that stays the same (1111 for example) that they have to nter into a form field, click submit, then it starts the download of the client. I just don't have enough experience with forms to know how easy/hard this might be, and googling has been tough because I don't know the proper keywords to search for... :bang head

Ebola · Dec 29, 2008

Are you using ASP.NET or PHP? Otherwise I'm sure you could do soemthing in javascript.

http://javascript.internet.com/passwords/

Pinky · Dec 29, 2008

Thanks for the suggestion Ebola

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I tried the password protection script. I can get it to work in Frontpage, but when run as a page from my host it immediately goes to the default URL entered as the 'incorrect' password web address:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!-- Begin

var password;
var pass1 = "1111"; // place password here

password=prompt("Please enter the password provided by the technician:","");

if (password==pass1) {
  window.location= "pennywise_remote_support.exe"; // file to open if password is correct
} else {
  window.location= "index7.html"; // file to load if password is incorrect
}
// End -->
</script>

Any ideas? Note that I'm trying to use it to execute the file only, but it's not even prompting for a password so I don't think WHAT it loads matters.

Pinky · Dec 29, 2008

Okay, nevermind - I found the password_protect.php file does everything I need and I was able to format it to look like the rest of my website so I'm golden

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Thanks Ebola, your link started me on the right path.

Ebola · Dec 29, 2008

Good luck with your site.

Simple html form question

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