Security Issues

[A.J.]

I recently designed a few pages that use Javascripts to help pass parameters through the URL of a file. For example:

A user goes to a webpage, and a popupbox asks him to enter his name.

When he clicks on a link to another page, his name is passed in this manner:
http://www.nextpage.com/page2.htm?JohnDoe

so that on the next page his name can be used without asking him for it again. I've tried these succession of pages on a few different web 'servers' and sometimes it works great, other times I get a 'You are not authorized to view this page' error. Does this have to do with the way a web server's security settings are configured? Does anyone know the particulars of security when it comes to passing a parameter like this?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[ivonnieda]

Dear A.J.,

Could you post your URL so we could take a look at your code?

Thanks,

Isaac
Admin
Big Resource Network
isaac@123webmaster.net

[This message has been edited by ivonnieda (edited 07-19-2000).]