This is sort of easy... of course you run your site through Apache... 
which in turns does this connection....

deny from all "somedirectory"

in your application or code...

include something from "somedirectory"

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Surya Suravarapu wrote:

>I'm using Apache 1.3.22 and Tomcat 4.0.2 on Windows NT/2000.
>
>I've a context called WebApp whose docBase="E:\WebApp". So, when I 
>point my browser to http://localhost/WebApp/main it will take me to the 
>login screen of the application.
>
>There is a folder called "Reports" in my E:\WebApp. Some part of my 
>application is using Response.sendRedirect() and displaying the 
>requested file (from the Reports folder) to the browser. That's fine. I 
>want to show the files from that folder only through the application 
>and I have to configure my web server in such a way that it denies 
>requests if a User enters the file name manually like 
>http://localhost/WebApp/Reports/some-file.xls. Please help me if you 
>have a solution for this.
>
>Thanks.
>-Surya
>
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