Re: Preventing people from seeing .db files...

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <mailbox@gunnar.cc>]

Daniel Gwozdz wrote:
> 
> One of the scripts I was looking at uses a .cgi extension on all
> it's data files so they aren't viewable from the web.
> 
> Does that sound feasible?
I see the point, but .cgi extensions indicate that files are executable,
and since that's not the case with the data files, it wouldn't be a very
"clean" solution. Besides, it would require changes in the program which
would make the new version non-compatible with previous versions, and
thus rather complicated to implement.
What's wrong with the solutions described at
http://rachelle.net/ringlink/miscellany.html#7 ?
/ Gunnar