Keep Server Online
If you find the Apache Lounge, the downloads and overall help useful, please express your satisfaction with a donation.
or
A donation makes a contribution towards the costs, the time and effort that's going in this site and building.
Thank You! Steffen
Your donations will help to keep this site alive and well, and continuing building binaries. Apache Lounge is not sponsored.
| |
|
 Topic: simple question before proceeding? |
|
| Author |
|
Doug22
Joined: 02 Jun 2013
Posts: 57
Location: Houston TX
|
 Posted: Fri 29 Aug '14 4:07 Post subject: simple question before proceeding? |
 |
|
I'd like to do a humans-versus-bots discrimination by having my website ask a simple question before proceeding. Like "What year is it?" I've seen that done.
It would be nice to do this before allowing access to a given directory.
This seems a lot simpler than imposing username/password protection, especially if access is for the general public.
How do I go about implementing this? |
|
| Back to top |
|
glsmith
Moderator
Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Posts: 2268
Location: Sun Diego, USA
|
| Posted: Fri 29 Aug '14 4:55 Post subject: |
|
|
With some kind of scripting language, your choice 
Have a form that asks the question, if the answer is correct then show the link/s to the file/s. Having expiring links would probably help as well.
If you know how to write php or some other scripting language it should be fairly easy, cost a little elbow grease is all.
Expiring links you can look into mod_auth_token, provided you have the know how to write the form/script mentioned above.
https://www.apachehaus.net/modules/mod_auth_token |
|
| Back to top |
|
glsmith
Moderator
Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Posts: 2268
Location: Sun Diego, USA
|
| Posted: Fri 29 Aug '14 8:13 Post subject: |
|
|
| Then again, there are probably pre-made download scripts available, I'm sure this wheel has been reinvented numerous times. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Doug22
Joined: 02 Jun 2013
Posts: 57
Location: Houston TX
|
| Posted: Fri 29 Aug '14 16:20 Post subject: |
|
|
| Thanks. A pointer to a wheel would be appreciated, in order that it needn't be reinvented again! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
|
