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Part of the web site that I index with webinator is password
protected. I have used the -U -P option to index this area & sure
enough when I click on the page titles after running a search I am
prompted for the login & password, so these pages appear to be
secure. However by clicking on the context (magnifying glass) button,
you can see the page content (in ascii), how do I disable this? I want
the pages to be accessible to our users who are allowed access but not
to everyone else who uses the search facility.


Thanks,
Karen.

The show-in-context page shows the ASCII formatted text that gw saved
from its walk. If you don't want the password-protected areas to show
up in a search at all, then don't walk them in the first place: exclude
them with -x or something similar.

If you want the pages to show up in the results of a search, but not
for the text to be visible in a show-context link, then you'll have to
modify the search script to exclude them, since the text must be
present in the html table for searches to work.
Modify the show-context function (<A NAME=context>) and check for
your restricted URLs where $Body is displayed: don't show it if it's
restricted. Or simply disable context views altogether: replace the
body of the <context> function with something like "No context views
available". Similarly, modify the <result> function and check for
restricted URLs before showing their abstracts with <abstract> (or
disable them).

-Kai

Perhaps consider creating two databases - one that does not include
the protected pages and then make this database available to your
non-members (ie, people who don't have the passwords); and another
database that includes the protected pages and which you have your
members (those with passwords) use.

How to do all this is beyond the scope of this post and you
might have extenuating circumstance which make this a bad idea
anyway, but I thought I'd throw this out there...

-John