HTTP

It is quite common to have the need to password protect a certain file or a set of files, in order to prevent unauthorized access to those files. There are many different alternatives on how to do this including, sessions, cookies, JavaScript and HTTP authentication. Peter shows you how to implement simple HTTP authentication.

Ever wanted to redirect users using PHP? Using HTTP headers? Conditionally? Peter explains all this and more, in order to help improve your site and coding.

It is common to have downloads on your website, and sometimes you want to moderate your downloads by speed, or possibly hide the directory that the download is coming from, protecting all your other files. This article explains how to do this using HTTP headers and file functions.