Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 11/23/05 23:01

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Michael Huhn blurted out atop a fullquote:

> But the problem I have is that the webserver accept that the user is able to
> delete somthing from the link and they can see the file and directory
> structure of the fileserver.

The problem you have, then, is that you're trying to solve the wrong
problem.

> www.test.html/html/index.html
>
> If they delete the index.html they can see the file structure of
> www.test.html/html And they can see a complete list of the files they are in
> the html folder:

So fix the server configuration to avoid that happening.

> I don't want this. That's the reason why I want to make the link invisible
> in the status bar.

No, it isn't. It's the reason that you erroneously *think* you want
that. Even if you succeeded with that (which, fortuately, readers can
defend themselves against, anyway), you would not have solved the real
problem.

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