> > looks like you may be setting yourself up for a source disclosure
> attack
> > by making them serveable by your http daemon.
>
> Source disclosure attack? Please explain...

Say you have some server side logic.  Lets use php for example. source
disclosure would be if somebody were to download the source file without
it being processed by the web server.  So the attacker sees all the source
he normally wouldn't see, like passwords for sql servers or the seed code
for some kind of transform for session management.  ASP used to be
especially vulnerable.

So if you had a directory full of class files or other things that the
user wouldn't use directly, you typically want to only make them available
to the web application.

tack

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