The mgiAuthenticate Tag Tag Behavior Use the mgiAuthenticate tag to password-protect individual pages by displaying an authentication dialogue box and requiring a username and password. If the authentication fails (i.e. the username or the password does not match those coded in the tag), an error page is displayed. Tag Syntax The mgiAuthenticate tag has two required parameters and no optional parameters. The tag form is: <mgiAuthenticate username="Name" password="Code"> Required Parameters: username - The username is the authorized login (i.e., name) necessary to access the page containing the mgiAuthenticate tag. The username must be unique. The username is case-sensitive and can consist of letters, numbers, multiple words, spaces and ASCII characters. password - The password is the authorized security code necessary to access the page containing the mgiAuthenticate tag. The password is case-sensitive and can consist of letters, numbers, multiple words, spaces and ASCII characters. A secure password should contain at least 8 characters and include both numbers and letters. Optional Parameters: None. Example Usage and Output <mgiAuthenticate username="Admin" password="39K2p2w8M"> In this example, the username and password required to access a page are case-sensitive. The mgiAuthenticate tag, username parameter and password parameter are placed in the HTML code of a page named index.mgi. When a visitor accesses index.mgi, a dialogue box is displayed requesting a User Name and Password. If the username and password entered in the dialogue box match the username and password coded in the parameters of the mgiAuthenticate tag exactly, then the index.mgi page is displayed to the visitor. If an incorrect username or password is entered in the dialogue box, an error is displayed. If the correct username and password is entered in the dialogue box with incorrect capitalization, an error is displayed. Suggested Usage Password Protection