[pLog-svn] resserver usage

Jon Daley plogworld at jon.limedaley.com
Wed Oct 4 10:10:56 GMT 2006


On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Reto Hugi wrote:
>>  	The .htaccess could even only allow requests with a certain
>> referrer, or other environment variable, so only redirected accesses would
>> be allowed
>
> referrers are too easy to spoof, so no added security. maybe "other
> environment variables" may work better, but it adds a complexity to it,
> which probably need too much of webserver configuration and still leaves
> some holes in the security concept. I'm not too positive that there is a
> way to have access control managed via lifetype *and* redirects. but I'd
> be glad to learn differently :)

 	There are standard variables in apache's mod_rewrite, so that 
shouldn't cause a problem among different hosts, etc.


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