Posted by Toby A Inkster on 03/19/07 16:24

John Hosking wrote:
> Anze wrote:
>
>> If it doesn't work in FF either then check file permissions. Some providers
>> automatically change file ownership and permissions every couple of hours.
>
> ?!

I'd imagine providers exist that, say, automatically:

- Find files that have chmod 777 and make them a little safer;
perhaps making them readable to just the owner and Apache.

- Find files where the owner themselves has no read permission,
and make them readable to the owner

As the former would fix a potential security problem, and the latter would
fix a reasonably common technical support issue.

But taking read permissions away from a particular file by a script is
another matter. I can't imagine any competent hosts doing that.

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