Thanks for the background. I wasn’t thinking of the case of other types of
servers, as I so far only deal with Apache.
> On Sep 15, 2018, at 9:28 AM, John Ralls wrote:
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> If an attacker guesses the path a -Indexes directive won’t stop him from
> requesting the directory from the server. It sh
If an attacker guesses the path a -Indexes directive won’t stop him from
requesting the directory from the server. It should return a 403 if there’s no
index.html, but perhaps there are servers out there that fail, or perhaps the
web design folks think that a blank page is better than a 403.
Of
Op vrijdag 14 september 2018 16:55:33 CEST schreef David T. via gnucash-devel:
> Hello,
>
> As I am toiling through the depths of the documentation generation process,
> I am struck by the fact that the base page of the Help is “help.html”,
> while the base page for the guide is “index.html”.
>
>
Interesting. I’ll investigate. I’ve never had an issue that I’m aware of. If
the server won’t even let you get there due to the directive...?
Regards,
Adrien
> On Sep 14, 2018, at 5:38 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>
> It's my understanding that that's less than perfect. It's standard practice
> in t
> On Sep 14, 2018, at 9:24 AM, Adrien Monteleone
> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Sep 14, 2018, at 11:10 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>>
>>
>> We should change the name of gnucash-guide/index.html, but we should also
>> insert an index.html into every directory that raises an error to prevent
>> direct br
Sure. I defer to you. I was merely trying to anticipate that removal of
“index.html” in the guide would cause some disruption.
> On Sep 14, 2018, at 12:10 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Sep 14, 2018, at 7:55 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel
>> mailto:gnucash-devel@gnucash.org>> wrote:
>>
>
> On Sep 14, 2018, at 11:10 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>
>
> We should change the name of gnucash-guide/index.html, but we should also
> insert an index.html into every directory that raises an error to prevent
> direct browsing; user access should be via https://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml
>
> On Sep 14, 2018, at 7:55 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> As I am toiling through the depths of the documentation generation process, I
> am struck by the fact that the base page of the Help is “help.html”, while
> the base page for the guide is “index.html”.
>
> Fo