Roger wrote:
>I went to the site using IE and happened to catch "Loading Javascript
><something>/members/something" on the status line.
>
>That is the problem. There is no login or registration for the site.
>
>Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do NOT contact them about the JS since this isn't the problem. Obviously,
atleast, a few people here haven't heard of this. I'll explain:
If someone (almost anyone with shell access to their webpage account) wants
to he/she can restrict access to files in a certain directory. This is done
through a file (or is there two? I can't remember) on the server (that
can't be read by a browser of course). The user sets this (these) up in
some way (programs are needed, well not really but it sure beats decrypting
data yourself).
When a file that is restricted is accessed the server tells this to the
client whereby the client should (Arachne doesn't) ask the user for a valid
login and password. These are then sent (encrypted or as plain text who
knows?) back to the server which checks them against the encrypted file
(files?) and allows or dissallows access to them. I've probably seen more
pages with this on than pages that require SSL so I was suprised to find
out that Arachne doesn't support it.
//Bernie
