[thelist] hiding a password in a simple javascript prompt box

Peter Bancroft pdb103 at cs.york.ac.uk
Thu Sep 14 10:38:36 CDT 2000


----- Original Message -----
From: Dean Mah <dsmah at home.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: 14 September 2000 13:33
Subject: Re: [thelist] hiding a password in a simple javascript prompt box


> Lisa Bartholomew writes:
>
> > So I have set up a very simple javascript that prompts the user for
> > the password. If you go to view source you can however can find out
> > what the password is.

Just in case you're not quite happy with the suggestions so far I've found a
neat way to do it at
http://tech.irt.org/articles/js075/index.htm - full source-code given.
I've used it before, and it seems pretty nifty. I just found it an elegant
solution to look at, too.  But that's just me :)
-Peter





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