Re: IIS Brain Dead
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 18537
interpreted = N
texte = Yeah, but this does not protect individual files. Can either platform do this? I want to prevent users from gaining access via direct manipulation, iehttp://www.thedomain.com/protected/images/yourimage.jpgI know you can do this with realms and with certain cgi's and .htaccess on unix. But what about webcat on mac and nt?-----Original Message----- From: Peter Ostry
To: WebDNA-Talk@smithmicro.com Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 2:58 PM Subject: Re: IIS Brain Dead >At 23:20 Uhr 26.06.1998, bob wrote: >>Can I have a realm in website pro that is regulated by a webcat database? >>I want to protect the contents of a folder and not just the pages and I >>would like this protected with webcat. > >You can work without server realms and have WebCat control the access. >The tag [ThisURL] returns the path of the current page starting from root, >for example >/products/pricelist/index.tpl >and you want to protect the whole folder pricelist: > >You need a database which holds usernames, passwords, folders they have >access to and preferably a user-id. >Any time a page gets loaded, parse [ThisURL] and do a database lookup to >find out if the current user has access to this directory - by checking >[ThisURL] with [GetChars...] or just ask wether the URL contains >pricelist - if this is enough. > >For login and access control you have two choices: >1. use the authenticate routine and ask the browser for the username each >time a page gets displayed, or >2. use a form for login and carry the stored user-ID through all actions. >Use includes for this code! > >Peter > >__________________________________________ >Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.com >Ostry & Partner - Ostry Internet Solutions >Auhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austria >fon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21 >
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Yeah, but this does not protect individual files. Can either platform do this? I want to prevent users from gaining access via direct manipulation, iehttp://www.thedomain.com/protected/images/yourimage.jpgI know you can do this with realms and with certain cgi's and .htaccess on unix. But what about webcat on mac and nt?-----Original Message----- From: Peter Ostry To: WebDNA-Talk@smithmicro.com Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 2:58 PM Subject: Re: IIS Brain Dead >At 23:20 Uhr 26.06.1998, bob wrote: >>Can I have a realm in website pro that is regulated by a webcat database? >>I want to protect the contents of a folder and not just the pages and I >>would like this protected with webcat. > >You can work without server realms and have WebCat control the access. >The tag [thisurl] returns the path of the current page starting from root, >for example >/products/pricelist/index.tpl >and you want to protect the whole folder pricelist: > >You need a database which holds usernames, passwords, folders they have >access to and preferably a user-id. >Any time a page gets loaded, parse [thisurl] and do a database lookup to >find out if the current user has access to this directory - by checking >[thisurl] with [GetChars...] or just ask wether the URL contains >pricelist - if this is enough. > >For login and access control you have two choices: >1. use the authenticate routine and ask the browser for the username each >time a page gets displayed, or >2. use a form for login and carry the stored user-ID through all actions. >Use includes for this code! > >Peter > >__________________________________________ >Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.com >Ostry & Partner - Ostry Internet Solutions >Auhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austria >fon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21 >
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