title: how to password protect downloadable pdf files in website
body: <p>I am having a personal portfolio website and i have a some pdf files like</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="file.pdf"&gt;Some file&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I dont want everyone to download the file, and i want it to protect it with password,so that i can share it with only the people i know</p>
  
  <p>where only the person who gives the correct password is able to download my file</p>
  
  <p>Note: 1. since its a personal portfolio website it do not have any "LOGIN's"<br>
        2. I have designed the webpage with HTML as a responsive code</p>
  
  <p>Your suggestions please, any way of doing it without .htaccess ??</p>