password protect guidance needed

[urban_legend]

i have password protected my site with a perl script and have placed the protected files in my ssl directory.

my question is -- once someone has logged in, what can i do to keep them from looking in the address or status bar and seeing the link address. if users have the link address, they can just type it into the address bar and avoid the login page.

any advice?

[ray326]

Sounds like you haven't actually protected your site. You're not using Basic Authentication are you?

[tim_kinder]

What is your web server? If it's Apache under Linux/Unix, you can protect the whole directory or particular files. To do this, try to contact your web hoster, they usually have FAQs about this stuff.

i have password protected my site with a perl script and have placed the protected files in my ssl directory.

my question is -- once someone has logged in, what can i do to keep them from looking in the address or status bar and seeing the link address. if users have the link address, they can just type it into the address bar and avoid the login page.

any advice?

[urban_legend]

basic authentication would be so much easier but i am unable to access the server with my current host. my host offers password protection, but they will only allow you to create up to 200 user accounts.