Re: Protecting Realms

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 18560
interpreted = N
texte = >>Peter Ostry: >>You can work without server realms and have WebCat control the access.>>From: Bob Minor >>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 think there is something like .htaccess on NT too, but anyway, it depends on the server you want to use. With WebStar the only way to generate users and passwords might be AppleScript, with a server like Webten you can handle that with a perl script.But - another idea - you can run WebCat as preprocessor. Then you are able to check any url before the webserver takes over. Do just a short check if there is a url you want to handle and send the user immediately to a different page for further actions - so you won't see a difference in server performance because of preprocessing. At 11:00 Uhr 30.06.1998, Terry Wilson wrote: >I have the exact situation, on the Mac, and solved it beautifully with the >$20 Pardeike's Welcome plug-in...unless you run Webten, which does not support Welcome. 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 Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Protecting Realms (Bob Minor 1998)
  2. Re: Protecting Realms (Peter Ostry 1998)
  3. Re: Protecting Realms (Grant Hulbert 1998)
  4. Re: Protecting Realms (Peter Ostry 1998)
  5. Protecting Realms (was: IIS Brain Dead) (Terry Wilson 1998)
>>Peter Ostry: >>You can work without server realms and have WebCat control the access.>>From: Bob Minor >>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 think there is something like .htaccess on NT too, but anyway, it depends on the server you want to use. With WebStar the only way to generate users and passwords might be AppleScript, with a server like Webten you can handle that with a perl script.But - another idea - you can run WebCat as preprocessor. Then you are able to check any url before the webserver takes over. Do just a short check if there is a url you want to handle and send the user immediately to a different page for further actions - so you won't see a difference in server performance because of preprocessing. At 11:00 Uhr 30.06.1998, Terry Wilson wrote: >I have the exact situation, on the Mac, and solved it beautifully with the >$20 Pardeike's Welcome plug-in...unless you run Webten, which does not support Welcome. 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 Peter Ostry

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