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

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <mailbox at gunnar.cc>]

Evelyn Hawke wrote:
> 
> A solution to this that was on another service I use for my web
> organization was to make them into .filename files.... That
> prevents anyone from being able to access them or read them without
> actually being telnetted or FTP'd in, but they can still be used.
> Would this work perhaps?
It would probably work, but like changing the file extensions to .cgi,
it would cause implementation problems due to non-compatibility with
previous versions.
> I've been to a place or two where the cgi scripts were
> web-viewable... they're only not web-viewable if the permissions
> have been set correctly on the directory/file.
So, maybe hidden files are better.
Maybe I will consider anything like it for the next _generation_ of
Ringlink, i.e. not for the next _version_. After all, we have workable
solutions which are described in the FAQ.
Anyway, thanks Daniel and Evelyn for your suggestions.
/ Gunnar