[fryweed]

I am creating a webpage, and i am seperating adult, and general material. however i am asking if someone can tell me the code, or means, to redirect a person trying to directly type the url to the adult section back to the disclaimer/sign in page?

Thank you in advance

[RossyG123]

It mainly depends what language you are using. But the only way that i know how to stop URL hi-jacking, is to use sessions. Do you know anything about sessions? When a user goes to the home page or logs in (if you have log ins) a random generated fixed length string is created, this string is passed to every page that the user goes to, this session is destroyed when the user closes the browser. On every page you simply have a session check() variable to check whether a session has started, if one is active then the user can view the page, if not they are redirected to the home page, or disclaimer page in your case. Are you using a scripting language such as PHP or ASP. Sessions can either use a database or just run in scripting cache, so you dont have to have a backend database

Any help?

[Heatsink]

Originally Posted by RossyG123

It mainly depends what language you are using. But the only way that i know how to stop URL hi-jacking, is to use sessions. Do you know anything about sessions? When a user goes to the home page or logs in (if you have log ins) a random generated fixed length string is created, this string is passed to every page that the user goes to, this session is destroyed when the user closes the browser. On every page you simply have a session check() variable to check whether a session has started, if one is active then the user can view the page, if not they are redirected to the home page, or disclaimer page in your case. Are you using a scripting language such as PHP or ASP. Sessions can either use a database or just run in scripting cache, so you dont have to have a backend database

Any help?

Or further, don't just check is a session has started, create a session variable that indicates what content they are allowed to see. Then you can check that at the beginning of every page and either deliver or redirect as required.

[RossyG123]

You can assign certain values to certain users after they have logged in and store this data in session variables. Like heatsink says on every page check what data is stored the session variable, and redirect or show content accordingly.

[fryweed]

i am right now just using standard html with dreamweaver and i know about sessions, just never have used, or created them. I am pretty much learning as i go, and all, just wanted to try my hand at websites. But i didn't have the idea of using a session, so thank you that did help.