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Sep 22.2006

I have to build a secure website, with login features ect…

Without using ASP, PHP, ect…

The ‘server’ this must run on is a machine running a stripped down version of windows XP (so no IIS, so no ASP!), and there is not enough room to install drivers for JSP pages, ASP, PHP, ect… There is a very simple server program written on this machine, which allows you to access pages.

As far as I can see, all i can use is javaScript, and I have to find a way to use it to check an XML file of user details, and obviously only let people in if they input the correct details.

Is this even possible?

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@KravvitzSep 22.2006 — JavaScript is inherently insecure.

If you want a secure site, you must use secure socket layers (SSL). If your "simple server" isn't capable of using SSL, then you are out of luck.
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@David1893authorSep 22.2006 — As far as I know, this is the server being used:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vcsample/html/_sample_mfc_httpsvr.asp

And I quote:

"HTTPSVR also minimally supports the Common Gateway Interface (CGI). You can create forms and execute CGI-compatible server-side applications using the standard hypertext markup language (HTML) tags."

So I assume CGI will open more possibilities for me...
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@DokSep 22.2006 — Maybe VBScript is a possiblitity ??
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@leonard_hatredSep 22.2006 — david, you can stream content from another file usinf JS, as long as the other file is in the same domain as the document calling it (textstream? datastream? something like that.)

the only example i can think of offhand is the tigra scroller, which pulls content to scroll from another document. google it. ?

but the problem is, using only JS your data document is going to be wide open still. if you encrypt them your algorythm will be wide open. etc.
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@David1893authorSep 22.2006 — Thanks for the replies folks.

It seems that the problem lies with how to get the server to refuse certain requests? Total nightmare, not a clue how I'm gonna do it, but hey, thats programming for you...
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@netbuddySep 22.2006 — WSH, have you looked into using the Windows Script Host to deal with your problem with server-side javascript?
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