The following reply was made to PR os-windows/2145; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Brian Behlendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Agent Zap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: os-windows/2145: .htaccess will password protect directory
but not individual files if name of file is guessed
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 18:36:41 -0700
At 06:20 PM 5/26/98 PDT, Agent Zap wrote:
>>Synopsis: .htaccess will password protect directory but not individual
>files if name of file is guessed
>>
>>State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed
>>State-Changed-By: brian
>>State-Changed-When: Tue May 19 18:55:43 PDT 1998
>>State-Changed-Why:
>>AgentZap is right, on Windows 95 the auth is ignored. I
>>haven't tested this yet on Windows NT, I'll try that tonight.
>
>Did you find anything or come up with any reason as to why this is going
>on? I just d/l 1.3b7 for win32 tonight and if I guess the filename it
>still lets me in without prompt. I am still using win95 and netscape
>4.05. (Yes just to make sure it isn't cached I clear the memory and
>file cache then exit netscape and manually delete fat.db and relaunch
>and try again- you can never be too safe heh).
Nope, no one's had the time/resources to deal with it. If it's still there
over the next week we may officially disrecommend Win95 as a supported
platform.
Brian
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