Understand your share link and who can open it

Who it's for

• Hosts sharing a page with teammates, clients, or friends
• Anyone unsure why visitors see a password form or a blank page
• Users comparing public and password-protected hosting

Steps

1. Get the link — After you host your first page, copy the share URL from the success state or from History.
2. Public pages — With password protection off, anyone with the link can open the page—no HTMLPUT account required.
3. Password pages — With protection on, visitors enter the password you set before the HTML loads.
4. Link shape — The URL points at HTMLPUT's edge; your file_key identifies the hosted page (see the snippet below).
5. Test as a visitor — Open the link in a private window to confirm public vs password behavior.

Gotchas

• Changing access in Edit affects new visitors immediately; keep the password you shared in sync.
• Do not embed secret tokens in the URL path—use password protection instead.
• Deleted or banned pages stop loading even if someone kept an old link.

• Host your first page
• Sign in and use History
• Set a password on a page