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Anonymous
November 16, 2016
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  • November 16, 2016
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can someone help me with setting gated content on landing page with login credentials?
thanks in advance

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    SanfordWhiteman
    SanfordWhiteman
    Level 10
    November 17, 2016

    That may be the worst code I've ever seen (and it offers no actual protection).

    EDIT: It appears the post with the code I was referring to has been removed by the poster. That's for the best, thanks.

      SanfordWhiteman
      SanfordWhiteman
      Level 10
      November 17, 2016

      Zero security isn't really a starting point for anything, and that code encourages about 5 different worst practices.

      Create a lead field LastGatedContentPassword. Add it to a form. Add a choice for Follow-Up URL that sends them to the asset on a match, to a failure page on a non-match. This stores the password on the server so it can't be read by the lead. You're adding only basic security, but it's a non-negligible barrier (while putting the password right in the HTML source is no barrier at all).

      You don't even need any code for this -- and I'm a coder. (JavaScript can be used to enhance the form by changing the password field to a type=password with asterisks, but it'll work fine without that. And as this is only a casual passcode that's probably not necessary.)

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