Your way will work fine but you point out the obvious problem. A better way
to do it is to use a session variable. You can do this if you are using ASP
or PHP.

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nate Harel" <nharel(at)nettech-services.net>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 8:19 AM
Subject: access to member pages only


> Hi all,
>
> I have a client who wants to have a "members" only section. He has a
public
> area, and wants to provide a section where only paid members can access. I
> am not sure how to do this.
>
> My idea was to prompt the member for a password (saved in a DB) to get
into
> the first page, and save a cookie on his machine which will be checked by
> all subsequent pages in that section. My concern is if the member has
> cookies turned off.
>
> Is this the way to do it, or are there other options?
>
>
> thanks
>
> Nate
>
>
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