Password protection through JavaScript Springfield MO

This is the first in a series of script tips meant to discuss and describe the concept of creating password protection through JavaScript.

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How'z it goin'...

This is the first in a series of script tips meant to discuss and describe the concept of creating password protection through JavaScript. I have three scripts, each better or worse than the last depending on your point of view, to show you. Each uses a different method of password protection. You choose which one you think is best.

The three are:


All three are effective to a point. As with most password protection, the protection is only as good as the user's ability to not blab the password. Where JavaScript has taken a bad rap in all of this is that many people say that the password is in the script, that it's easy to look at the code, grab the password and get in.

The second script above simply does not include the password so that's out. The first and the third do, but I'll show you how to make it darn hard to grab it from the code...if you can get to the code at all.

Let's get started with the first one.

Here's the effect

The password is "peppermint" - without the quotes. Before you do it correctly, put in incorrect passwords, leave spaces blank, hit CANCEL, and try to look at the pages code. You'll see how I hid it...

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