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

["Daniel Gwozdz" <smage@together.net>]

Just something I saw.  I guess I mentioned it for reasons of ease of
installation for the user, since .cgi files in a cgi directory are never
web-viewable (in other words, a universal solution.)
Ah well.  The non-compatibility had occurred to me.  Like I said, just a
thought.
Daniel Gwozdz
The Water-Cooled Volkswagen Ring - http://www.wcvw.org
> >
> > 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 ?