Filez-By-Name

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Pictures of Bill's 37 Cats

Welcome to my page, Mr. No-Java-thanks-I'll-take-decaf! Here are full-colour pictures of all my cats and stuff blah blah blah....If you didn't get asked for your name, you probably won't have any idea what I'm talking about later. Your JavaScript must be active for it to work!

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This here's a pretty boring-looking page, no? A dumb little Javascript that asks your name, and pet pictures?! If your name is Dave, this is indeed a boring page. But if your name is filezguy, things suddenly get much more exciting. Try it! (use all lowercase) Wouldn't that make this a page worth visiting?

This page works by prompting the surfer for their name, then deciding whether he/she's one of your file-sharing buddies or just some schmuck that stumbled across your phony site: the luser gets a bunch of boring crap unless they type in the name you've chosen as a secret password to your files. This method, although not really secure (in this simple example, anyone can get your "password" or links to your files by looking at the page source), is much better for your account than having an actual password script--most if not all FWPs forbid password-protected pages, and people who feel you're cheating them (by locking them out of your files with a password) may be all to eager to go send some email to your FWP administrator telling him all about your little password script.... This script just asks for a name, not a password, and fools the lusers by not appearing to restrict any access, no matter what is typed in.

Here is a sample source code you'd use for this particular script...

<SCRIPT language="javascript">
surfer=prompt("Hi, what's your name?","Anonymous Websurfer"); // Displays name prompt

if (surfer==""||surfer==null){ // Sets name to "Nameless Loser" if they don't give a name
surfer="Nameless Loser";
}

if (surfer=="filezguy"){ // If the "password" matches, give links to
                         // files. Remeber to put a \ before any quotation
                         // marks in the inserted HTML!
document.write("Here are my filez! <link> <link> etc, you get the idea...");

}
else { // If anything other than your "password" is entered, just print some crappy stuff...
    document.write("Welcome to my page, "+surfer+"! Here are full-colour pictures of all my cats and stuff blah blah blah...");
}
</SCRIPT>

Remember, that's just an example. Change stuff, text, links as necessary for your own pages. If you want to discourage source-seekers, you can put the script into a .js file and call it with a <SCRIPT SRC="whatsyourname.js"> tag to make the code less conspicuous to wayward eyeballs in your page source.

One modification you may want to try on a script like this is changing the criteria for getting at the hidden files so the script functions even more transparently; e.g. make it provide the files based on the referring page, or the presence of a cookie set by a different page in your site. Again, be creative!