On Wednesday 25 October 2000, at 7 h 38, the keyboard of Geoff Hutchison 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You can make a symbolic link and secure one of the URLs, e.g.:
> 
> ln -s htsearch htsearch.pr
> 
> and then in your server config:
> <Location /cgi-bin/htsearch.pr>
> AuthType Basic

As I understand it, there is no real security here: anyone can setup a form in a Web 
page which will call htsearch (not htsearch.pr) and this htsearch will be able to read 
the configuration file for the private database?



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