htaccess and Javascript menus

[lamrobertson]

Hope someone can help me out.

I have an avs with Javascript menus and I am having problems with the htaccess. Someone told me to add RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ [NC]
but that seems to upprotect the whole members area.

I have been searching online and the only thing I have found is a suggestion to change to cgi menus.

Is it possible to use the javascript menus and have the htaccess work properly?

Thanks in advance
Lorna

[sneaker]

Javascript and htaccess are two seperate things, javascript is client based (browser) script and htaccess is called before anything is outputted to browser by apache or server side configuration file.

[lamrobertson]

lol I know they are two different things.

The problem is the javascript menus seems to be causing a problem with the referral checking. And when I add the null referrer than anyone can access the members area.

[mephisto]

to the best of my knowledge javascript based stuff does not pass referer. referer is only passed through clicks or when you explicitly set it into the user's browser.
i would personally not suggest referer based user authentication but then that is just me.