restricting users using time help!!

Hi there

i am triny to work out how i can restrict users using time ie they can only
visit my website once an hour

does anyone out there have any suguestions or could you point me in the
right direction

if it helps at all the site will be using ASP 2.0 and VBScript


thanks in advance for any help i receive

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:52:38 +0100, "AArdvark" <aardvark_ (AT) ntlworld (DOT) com>
wrote:

Hi there

i am triny to work out how i can restrict users using time ie they can only
visit my website once an hour

does anyone out there have any suguestions or could you point me in the
right direction

if it helps at all the site will be using ASP 2.0 and VBScript


thanks in advance for any help i receive

Why?

As far as I'm aware, there's no way of doing what you want to do, but
even if I could think of how to do it, why would you want to?


Paul Taylor
http://www.technocurve.co.uk

i have seen this done on other websites so i know it can be done

every website is unique and has diffrent requirements mine happens to be
that i want users to be able to access certain areas of the site after an
period of an hour

thanks anyway

"Paul Taylor" <pftaylor (AT) technocurve (DOT) co.uk> wrote

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:52:38 +0100, "AArdvark" <aardvark_ (AT) ntlworld (DOT) com
wrote:

Hi there

i am triny to work out how i can restrict users using time ie they can
only
visit my website once an hour

does anyone out there have any suguestions or could you point me in the
right direction

if it helps at all the site will be using ASP 2.0 and VBScript


thanks in advance for any help i receive


Why?

As far as I'm aware, there's no way of doing what you want to do, but
even if I could think of how to do it, why would you want to?


Paul Taylor
http://www.technocurve.co.uk

AArdvark wrote:

Hi there

i am triny to work out how i can restrict users using time ie they can only
visit my website once an hour

does anyone out there have any suguestions or could you point me in the
right direction

if it helps at all the site will be using ASP 2.0 and VBScript

It's possible with some kind of session management. I can think of two
options right now:

1) Set a cookie with a timestamp for 'last logon', and check that cookie
on each visit. Requires cookies, of course, which are not a terribly
reliable way to manage data (user can manipulate cookies, user might not
be able to receive cookies at all, user may refuse to set cookie and
therefore not be able to visit site at all, etc).

2) Require users to log in with username/password, store time of last
login. Compare current time to time of last login. Doesn't require
cookies, but requires a registration system. Not every user will want to
"register", with all the risks of handing over personal data to a
largely unknown entity.

Whatever system you choose, the site would have to be DAMN GOOD to
justify such a restrictive access policy.


Matthias