- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:50:44 +0100
- To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
> From: Pawel S. Veselov [SMTP:vps@phoenix.math.spbu.ru] > > You need a cgi script like that: > > This script can also determine whether the file should be sent or not > and what file to send. [DJW:] This only hides the locl file name. My guess is that the questioner is trying to achieve security by obscurity in terms of only allowing access to a file to authorised users, or those who have completed a demographics forms. It's also possible, but I suspect unlikely, that this is being done because the file is large and they want to benefit from public caching proxies. What they probably don't want is people publishing deep links to the actual file. E.g. one travel company I know has PDF itineries, but expects one to provide name, address etc, before seeing them. However, the filenames are derivable from the tour code and once you know one, you can bypass the form for the others. I suspect the questioner wants to stop this sort of thing happening. -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS. >
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