in reply to Silly Badly Done Script Which Impresses the Heck Out of Client

Did I get the idea wrong?
IMHO you are trying to block an URL if there has no
user logged in correctly, right?

Your code handles the lonely user trying to get that,
but as soon as he is lucky, any other user can reach
the URL, because the index.html exists.

Another anoying thing is, that one might type your
URL completed with indexalt.html to reach it
directly.

I don't think, that this is an useable idea to
protect one's URL from unauthorized visits.

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Re: Re: Silly Badly Done Script Which Impresses the Heck Out of Client
by jerrygarciuh (Curate) on Oct 11, 2001 at 07:31 UTC
    I'm not sure where you got that idea but it was just a widget to let the client rename the index file so that the site went live at his command as opposed to me FTPing or SSHing in for him to go live. Client was very amused BTW, not that it earned me a bonus ;}
    jg
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