It's a shame that 4D's web server does not directly support something similar to Apache's .htaccess file in the web root. Securing direct access to html files/folders would then be trivial.
Regards, Narinder Chandi, ToolBox Systems Ltd. I am available for new consulting opportunities… http://4d.1045681.n5.nabble.com/ANN-4D-Developer-Available-td5765443.html -- -----Original Message----- From: 4D_Tech <[email protected]> on behalf of 4D Tech Mailing List <[email protected]> Reply-To: 4D Tech Mailing List <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, 1 October 2019 at 16:49 To: 4D Tech Mailing List <[email protected]> Cc: "Epperlein, Lutz (agendo)" <[email protected]> Subject: AW: Web aficionados - Not allow user to access file directly Use the so-called "Web decoy" technique. Basically you put your html files in another folder outside your html root. Then redirect all requests using ON WEB CONNECTION. For every http request 4D cannot serve directly, it uses ON WEB CONNECTION. This is more elaborated e.g. here: How to skip over HTTP and redirect to HTTPS https://kb.4d.com/assetid=75313 How to skip over HTTP and redirect to HTTPS: Part 2 (The Web decoy folder) https://kb.4d.com/assetid=75753 And there was a book "The Web Companion" by David Adams, it's a bit old now, but the technique remains the same. If you can get a copy ... HTH Regards Lutz -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Betreff: Web aficionados - Not allow user to access file directly Hi Web Experts, I don't want the web users to access html files directly, without going through ON WEB CONNECTION. e.g. http://myweb/foobar.html If "foobar.html" exists in the web folder, Users can put in this in the address and it will pull up the web page, but will not process the 4D Tags, etc. Very, very funky. So, I'm probably being a dope, but does anyone know what I can do to prevent accessing html files directly? Gracious thanks Randy Engle ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
