Posted by Tim Roberts on 11/11/05 08:34

"Freebird" <peoplel@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Hello everyone, =]
>I need your help,
>
>I'm creating a script that will work in many servers, and there's this part,
>where you can update a list, so the script goes from the client's machine to
>the central server, opens the file, and in adda line by line in the client
>server, it's all working fine, but there's a problem, this list, can't be
>available to others, because if I do this:
>
>www.test.com/list/test.txt
>
>I can see the hole list, if I remove the permissions, my script wont work
>anymore, what can I do ?

Why don't you put the file in some other location, outside of the web site?

Barring that, you should be able to use a .htaccess file to make the file
invisible to browsers.
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- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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