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RE: Preventing people from seeing .db files...


  • From: Daniel Gwozdz  
  • Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 19:04:28 -0600 (MDT)

Just something I saw.  I guess I mentioned it for reasons of ease of
installation for the user, since .cgi files in a cgi directory are never
web-viewable (in other words, a universal solution.)

Ah well.  The non-compatibility had occurred to me.  Like I said, just a
thought.

Daniel Gwozdz
The Water-Cooled Volkswagen Ring - http://www.wcvw.org




One of the scripts I was looking at uses a .cgi extension on all
it's data files so they aren't viewable from the web.

Does that sound feasible?

I see the point, but .cgi extensions indicate that files are executable,
and since that's not the case with the data files, it wouldn't be a very
"clean" solution. Besides, it would require changes in the program which
would make the new version non-compatible with previous versions, and
thus rather complicated to implement.

What's wrong with the solutions described at
http://rachelle.net/ringlink/miscellany.html#7 ?


References to:
Gunnar Hjalmarsson

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