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Very well done...it provided an eloquent solution to my problem...i'm glad i found your site.

you're at the top of the javascript bookmarks now :)

Scripting with ya,
mcgub

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This doesn't work with IE4, or IE5, it just flops out the <file not found>. Even the example on your page does not work.... :(

when the wrong password is supplied it goes to jour main home page which is what every nonexistant file on your server does...

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This code works in Netscape but not in IE5 (which I thought was the point of the second version).

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I appreciate the article, and employed the technique. Problem is, the first time it is tried it shows the CODE, not the form. Then a reload shows the form. Is this a flaw in the code?

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when we are asking that image
or htm .it will show status on
statusbar from there we can easily find out the password

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There is just one problem. It does not work mith MSIE5.

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There IS a safe password protection which is (nearly) unhackable, but slow and big in size: Encode your file (ASCII/ANSI 32..127 only because of UNICODE) and escape() it. To decode it, you need the decryption algorithm in JavaScript (so RSA is bad; simple XORing is not very safe, but it works. Do it after unescape()ing).
There may not be any 0-bytes in the text because JavaScript (or better: the C browsers are written it) cut off the rest, so images cannot be encoded. Also, your password has to be ANDed with 0x6F to prevent generating codes >= 128 or < 32. That's it -- a (relatively) safe encoding!

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This was interesting. I recently bought "JavaScript for Dummies" and it seems rather obscure. What I want to do is make a learning module where the user enters the correct answer to a question, e.g. how many weeks in a year? Then if the number entered is 52, it goes to the next page with another question - e.g. how many white piano keys, etc. It seems your method would work for this, but I wouldn't want the "password" to show up in dots. I am sure there is some simple way to do this, so thanks for your article which at least comes close to answering the question I have been trying to answer for several days.

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a very good script but it could be better

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I am a newbie to website creation and I am using Dreamweaver 3.

My website has frames in it.

I want to be able to display the incorrect password htm in the mainFrame, but if the password is correct, it opens it up in _parent.

Could u please help me to do so.

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What should actually happen if you enter the wrong password.

I thought the object of this script was to avoid the "can't find url" message. Which it did display!!!

Any comments??

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This example doesn't work either!

Try it yourself.

It loads an error document which I thought was the object NOT to display!

Let me know when you get it working!

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Nice article, but it doesn't work on my IE5+ W98SE system. I still get the PAGE NOT FOUND message. Can you help?

TIA

Murray

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But ...(: it doesn't work om mi IE5.0, it gives "The requested URL was not found on this server" when the wrong password is typed. Too bad...

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i liked the script,..well,..i like the idea of it. But it doesn't seem to work. Even the included example doesn't work. If you put in the wrong password, it tries to load a page with that name which of course it can't find, so you get an error message.

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Very good article, but the script doesn't work with Netscape 4.6 which is a pity. Is there a change that can be made to enable this to work wiht the afor mentioned browser.

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The "Working Example" doesn't work! I was able to get past the password page with or without the password.

-Kevin

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Is it just me or is there a option missing from this password varification? Shouldn't a message/page pop up if they enter the password incorrectly? Something like, "Sorry you have put the incorrect password in please try again by clicking the back button on your browser."
That's what I thought the blank.htm was being used for...? I'm a very beginner when it comes to Javascript, so maybe I'm missing something. In IE 5.5 it just dumps you to a genaric can't find this XXXX.htm (XXXX being the wrong password)

Please help if ya can :)
-Levon

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Won't work when I try it on your site I get a URL not found error with incorrect password. Using MSIE 5.0

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This code is here already for several years, but it does NOT work with Microsoft IE4 nor with IE5. Maybe only with IE3? If you could come up with a working solution, I would be glad to pay for it, as would lots of webmasters!
Wishing you succes,
Guido, webmaster DelphiLand
http://www.festra.com

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nice work