>Number: 968 >Category: general >Synopsis: NCSA incompatibility -- no access control by referer >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache (Apache HTTP Project) >State: open >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 4 17:50:01 1997 >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: >Environment: Any >Description: In the documentation on NCSA's server, there is a referer directive allowed under <Limit> (see the following URL for more info: http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/setup/access/referer.html). This restricts access to a document based on the referred page. I am unaware of any similar feature in Apache, and this seems important enough to be placed on the list of discrepancies between Apache and NCSA's server. >How-To-Repeat:
>Fix: Implement it (the preferred choice) or document the difference not only in differences between Apache and NCSA, but also in some of the documentations on Access control. (I ask that a copy of any response to this to be e-mailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
