adalton
09-28-2008, 04:43 PM
I am making a marketing cd out of a website I already built. Want to put all files but index.html in a secured/locked folder on the cd. However, need the index.html to obviously access all the files in that secure folder and then the site will run from there. I just don't want the users to get into the actual files.
Can I do this? How?
The purpose of this is to send to offices we are marketing to that do not have internet access - yes, there are still some out there - or have strong security for internet use. So the index.html cannot point to the files stored on the web.
WebJoel
09-28-2008, 04:55 PM
I don't think that you can, for if the index.html files 'reads' any files onto/into the computer, the files is 'available' and 'in' the computer. No longer 'protected'.
I think I understand the request, -you don't want 'just the files' to be batch-copyable directly from the CD. This is like that age-old question of 'how do I protect the files on my site' and the short answer is, you cannot.
Even if you COULD, anyone whom can access the files via "index.html" can just check their cache/temp folder and voila! -There are the 'viewed' files!
I know of (or knew of) a free program that creates a special INVISIBLE folder on your hard-drive (or RW-CD, in this case) with a heavy encryption password that you create and use to access said folder. There is no other way to gain access to the folder, nothing (according to site, anyway) will ever show the contents. It may show 'hidden' or 'reserved', but never show 'the content'.
They warn explicitly too, that YOU MUST NOT LOSE or forget the password that you created, for even THEY cannot 'open a concealed folder' protected in the manner that their software does...
I used this for awhile... and treated it like a 'hidden partition' on my HDD, -kept a spare copy of OS on it and some files, etc (and folder will 'expand' if more content is added), but grew tired of it and abandoned it... Emptied and erased this 'virtual hidden partition'.
Now of course, -can I recall the name of this software? No! :mad: