[PLUG] Making a link on a web site not appear...

Kenneth G. Stephens kens at kens.cad2cam.com
Sat Aug 30 18:33:01 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 17:41, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 17:16, Kenneth G. Stephens wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 16:56, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> > > For people who can't use it.  I want to have a link on my outside web
> > > site hidden from Internet clients.  What I want to do is
> > > have it be an anchor to a web server only my lan clients can get to.
> > > I'm using apache.  Other than this one link being different, I want 
> > > this page to be the home page for everyone at this site, lan and
> > > Internet clients.
> > > 
> > >      --  Michael C. Robinson
> > You could also use basic authentication, if everyone you wish to connect
> > to the site has a login.
> > 
> > Ken
> 
> True, but I don't want to require a login to get here.
> A little more explanation is in order.  My email site
> is at 192.168.1.14.  My web site the link is on is at
> 209.210.202.170.  I'm wanting to do a simple 
> <A HREF="http://goose.robinson-west.com">my-link-name</A>
> where the hostname in this anchor is the same as 
> 192.168.1.14.  Since this link won't be followable
> for an Internet client and I in fact don't want it
> to be, I don't want it to appear.  The page this
> is on is index.html, I basically want everyone
> to get the same page except for this one link.
> 
>      --  Michael
You may do some scripting and check the IP of the caller.  Do some
decision from there.  Apache provides lots of information on the
caller/referrer.

Ken





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