On 7/27/07, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, July 26, 2007 8:41 am, Eric Butera wrote:
> > filenames.  Are you trying to protect them from unauthorized viewing?
>
> If you are trying to protect from unauthorized viewing, they probably
> shouldn't be in the webtree at all, as it's not exactly rocket science
> to guess that your images are in an images sub-directory, even if you
> never show a URL to it...
>
> You'd still do the same stuff, just put the images outside the webtree
> so that the ONLY way to get to them is through your PHP script.
>
> --
> Some people have a "gift" link here.
> Know what I want?
> I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist.
> http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch
> Yeah, I get a buck. So?
>
>

Not everyone has the option to do that.  Plus I think it is
unintuitive to have things outside of your actual "web site."  You can
disallow traffic with Apache fairly easily if you're paranoid of such
things.

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