Restricting access to a folder (by cookie?)

[davecheet]

Is there any way I can restrict to the contents of a chosen folder according to whether users do or do not have a cookie in place?

[RichMcCrea]

My first idea would work in an ASP.NET website. You didn't mention your
development environment. In an ASP.NET website. The web.config file works on
a heirarchal basis (so a web.config file in a subdirectory would override a
parent directory). If this is your environment thereform, you could pull the
application setting from the web.config in your webpage (and could sorta have
no permissions in one folder and other permissions in another). I haven't
done this exactly.. but the code in your codebehind page could use
ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings['security_cookies_settings'] to pull what if
any cookie requirements apply to that folder. then it becomes a simple matter
to test for the cookie that setting would reference. Again. This applies to
ASP.NET... Hope it helps Rich McCrea

[davecheet]

Sorry Rich,

I'm working in PHP and I'm afraid I'm not too good at proper code yet.

Thanks for your help though.

Dave