[thelist] Bypassing a login

[Kevin Cannon]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:14:25PM -0500, Rob Whitener wrote:
> That would work, but my bosses want me to craft the site such that the only
> people who are allowed to save images have to be approved sales reps and
> dealers of our merchanise (office furniture), but I don't want to force
> people to login just to see what we have, and I also don't want to make the
> site 100% dynamic because of what I think would turn into a mod_rewrite and
> pathname nightmare (for spidering purposes).  So on the static pages I was
> thinking about using a cookie to see if a user is logged in or not.

Easy way to do it, although not that great is using htaccess (or the
equivilant in for IIS)  quick googling will help you out. (:

- Kevin