web - recommended authentication?

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Mon Apr 1 17:34:22 EST 2002


"Trung Hoang" <thoa0025 at mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote in message
news:ayvp8.3121$hi7.12423 at news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Greetings,
>
> i wish to create authentication for a section of my website. what is a
good
> practiced way to do this?
>
> via cookies?
> via .htaccess? (but i do not wish to use directories is it possible to
> restrict a script & query string? suppose script.cgi?request=specialarea
via
> .htaccess??)
>
> what are your thoughts?

This topic has been fairly extensively discussed in the last couple of
months. You migfht want to take a look in the newsgroupd archives on Google.

regards
 Steve







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