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Add Member Ony to Unlisted Access Custom Web Pages

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9 years 3 months ago #56137 by StanGreen
Add Member Ony to Unlisted Access Custom Web Pages was created by StanGreen
When creating a custom web page, you can set it to Public, Members or Officer access. When you create a Unlisted Access page, it is always public. Yes, the page is hidden, but if someone was able to access the page with the link, there is no security around it. For example, an internal club page is created. A person, who is a member at the time, book marks the page. They then let their membership laps and are removed from the members only links. However, if they use their bookmark, they can still access the page. What I would expect is if they are not logged in, they would get some sort of error and be redirected back to the home page or a login page. This is a simple example, but I can think of many more that would be much worse then one person accessing the page.

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9 years 3 months ago #56139 by Jane Atkinson
Replied by Jane Atkinson on topic Add Member Ony to Unlisted Access Custom Web Pages
I agree with this. I've often had reservations about making a member-only page hidden, for exactly these reasons.
Secretary, EY Toastmasters club 1137486, District 112
Auckland, NZ

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9 years 3 months ago #56202 by StanGreen
Replied by StanGreen on topic Add Member Ony to Unlisted Access Custom Web Pages
If anyone would like a workaround, I came up with this javascript. It seems to meet about 85% of my needs so it is better than nothing.
<!-- Check Logged In -->
<script language="JavaScript">
function getCookie(cname)
{
var name = cname + "=";
var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
for(var i=0; i<ca.length; i++) {
var c = ca;
while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1);
if (c.indexOf(name) == 0) return c.substring(name.length,c.length);
}
return "";
}

var LoggedIn = getCookie("FTH.MSID");

if(LoggedIn.length < 1)
{
window.location = "http://" + window.location.host + "/";
}
</script>
<!-- End of Check Logged In -->

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9 years 3 months ago - 9 years 3 months ago #56203 by SteveTheTechie
Replied by SteveTheTechie on topic Add Member Ony to Unlisted Access Custom Web Pages
Your test is flawed, since the actual test checks whether the cookie value matches what is in the db, not whether a cookie value exists.

A reliable method is to just check for the existence of element id memberlogout which is the member logout button. E.g.,
Code:
var LoggedIn = !!document.getElementById("memberlogout");

Of course, if I choose to change that ID, well, all bets are off... ;)
Last edit: 9 years 3 months ago by SteveTheTechie.

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9 years 3 months ago #56206 by StanGreen
Replied by StanGreen on topic Add Member Ony to Unlisted Access Custom Web Pages
Yes, I know this is a hack, which is the 85%. In all my testing, which I admit was somewhat limited, I always saw the session cookie (i.e. FTH.MSID) being deleted on logout.

Using the element ID make the code simpler as I don't need to parse the cookie. (As long as the ID does not change.) My one question is why the double exclamation points (i.e. !!) . Does this not just return the getElementById result?

New code (using Steve's concept)

<!-- Check Logged In -->
<script language="JavaScript">
if (!document.getElementById("memberlogout"))
{
window.location = "http://" + window.location.host + "/";
}
</script>
<!-- End of Check Logged In -->

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9 years 3 months ago - 9 years 3 months ago #56207 by SteveTheTechie
Replied by SteveTheTechie on topic Add Member Ony to Unlisted Access Custom Web Pages
!! is "bang bang" ... forces boolean result... It converts a "truthy" value to pure boolean. (look it up)
There are cases where a boolean result (and only a boolean result) is what is really needed.
Last edit: 9 years 3 months ago by SteveTheTechie.
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