>>Yeah, but this does not protect individual files. Can either platform do>this? I want to prevent users from gaining access via direct manipulation,>ie>>http://www.thedomain.com/protected/images/yourimage.jpg>>I know you can do this with realms and with certain cgi's and .htaccess on>unix. But what about webcat on mac and nt?I have the exact situation, on the Mac, and solved it beautifully with the$20 Pardeike's Welcome plug-in http://welcome.digitalfarmers.com. You canconfigure it to do many things, and in my case, it protects specificfolders from serving .jpg .gif & .mov unless the referrer is my own server.It sends it a file of your choosing, like a graphic or an .html. In mycase, I didn't want to put anyone off, so I made a polite message sayingsomething like 'In order to serve our files correctly, they must be clickedfrom their thumbnails' and tells them to either use the back button or togo in the front door (then there's a link to the opening page).It also works when you click an inline image and ask to 'open this image'.I haven't done it yet, but I intend to put my custom graphics, likebackground patterns and other interface niceties in a protected folder,just to make it a little harder for people to rip them off.I have to do this because visitors to the pay site get served up threerandom pictures as samples, pulled from a pool of about a dozen marked assamples in my picture database. I didn't want someone to get Jenny28.jpg asa sample and then change the url to files 01 thru 27 and beyond. Now theycan't. Obviously, Realm-based protection in WebStar won't work in thiscase, mixing non-member and member access to the same folder. Try it outwith the samples at http://www.feetdreams.com to see how it works.Terry WilsonTerry Wilsonterryw@rainbowcreek.com
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