At 1:37 PM -0600 12/2/99, Geoff Hutchison wrote:
>At 5:57 PM +0100 12/2/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>How to index an Apache server that requires UserID/Password authentication?
>
>See http://www.htdig.org/htdig.html
>
>At 11:42 AM -0600 12/2/99, Paul DuBois wrote:
>>Wouldn't that essentially compromise security, given that you would
>>then have the protected server contents sitting about somewhere in
>>an htdig database?
>
>And this differs from having the contents around in HTML files or in
>another database?
Sure. It might very well differ, yes.
>
>Presumably,
I was not, and saw no reason to make, that presumption, particularly
since the question didn't specify whether or not the protected server
was the poster's own.
>if you want to index a protected server, you're making some attempt
>to protect the database and the search forms as well. If you're not,
>you're probably aware that you're doing this. You can't just blindly
>index a protected server--you must supply the authentication to the
>indexer.
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Paul DuBois, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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