- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:33:34 +0900
- To: vinita <vinita@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On May 31, 2005, at 7:32, vinita wrote: >> Could you give more details on what you mean by access control? If you >> mean having a way to control who (user or IP) can use the validator or >> not, this can by done at the Web server level... > yes, I'm talking about apache access control, but want to give > different access control depending on the validating file > > Currently the file path is passed as an argument > (http://server/validator?url=http://server/file1) Then why not just set some access control (at the server level, again), on http://server/file1? The validator will proxy the authentication request and will only let you validate if you can access the said resource. If this doesn't work for you, I guess I need to understand why you would want to restrict validation of a public file. Feel free to answer off-list if there is sensitive information that you'd rather not share... -- olivier
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