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Simple Password Protection With a Cookie

If you just need to password protect a single page or a series of pages and you don't need multiple users this simple code can be pasted at the top of the page or pages. In this version of the code we use a cookie to keep track of the password access so the user does not have to log in again when they come back to the page or pages. This is also a good example of how to use cookies.

You can change the password in the code. It is set to "sample" right now.

All you need to do is make sure the form posts to itself.
For example: If the page you paste this code into is called "guestbook.asp"
You would change the action of the form to "guestbook.asp".

Paste the code below directly under the
<%@ LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" %> on your asp page. Then underneath all of this code have the entire contents of your page as normal including your own set of body and html tags. If the correct password is entered you will see your page instead of the input form and it will remember that you are logged in with a cookie. That's all there is to it... pretty easy ehh.

<%
Response.Buffer = True
STATUS = Request("STATUS")
PASSWORD = Request("PASSWORD")

If STATUS = "CHECKEM" Then
     If PASSWORD = "sample" THEN
        Response.Cookies ("PASSWORDACCESS")("Access") = "Yes"
        Response.Cookies ("PASSWORDACCESS").Expires = DATE + 256
     End If
End If

If Request.Cookies("PASSWORDACCESS")("Access") <> "Yes" Then
%>
<HTML>
<BODY>
<form method="POST" action="thispage.asp">
<center>
<input type="PASSWORD" name="PASSWORD" size="10"><br>
<input type="hidden" value="CHECKEM" Name="STATUS" >
<input type="submit" value="Login">
</center>
</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>
<%
Response.End
End If
%>

If you like this concept check out this awesome application...
It works in a similar same way, but has a user database as well as many advanced features.

http://www.ASPProtect.com

ASP (Active Server Pages) is a technology developed by Microsoft. Pages using ASP are primarily developed in JScript, or VBScript and are integrated into the HTML of your Web pages. The ASP code is compiled on-the-fly by the server and the resulting output is standard HTML. By using ASP, Web pages can be dynamic, full of ever-changing content, and browser independent.