[python-win32] ISAPI Filter for authentication

[Randy Syring]

On 01/26/2012 01:02 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
> Please excuse me for the side trip, but I'm confused by your 
> requirement. If you are willing to allow the general public to access 
> your information via Google, then what's the point of the HTTP Auth? 
> If you have some information that is public and some that is available 
> only after login, then why wouldn't you just put a "login" button on 
> your web page? That is equally as secure as HTTP Auth, and you are in 
> full control of the process. 

The customer was only concerned about "most people" needing a password.  
If some got access through google cache, that was fine.  Furthermore, 
the site was mostly static content and I didn't want to rebuild it, 
hence my attempt to use an ISAPI filter to control access without 
needing to re-write the app itself.

On 01/26/2012 01:25 PM, Kris Hardy wrote:
> As an additional note from someone that has been doing SEO for quite a 
> while, doing filtering based on the User-Agent (or most any other 
> method, for that matter) will severely hurt your search engine 
> rankings, and can potentially get your pages removed from the index 
> entirely.  I would recommend *against* doing this, and instead think 
> about what your objective is and how you can meet your objective while 
> delivering the same experience to both your users and the search engines.
I decided to head a different route for this very reason, thanks.

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