Anthony Smith wrote:

>I am not really sure if this is a jetspeed question or not but I really need
>an answer to this or I am screwed. I have some files (jpgs, html, jsp) that
>I want to put permissions on. I know how I could do it for a jsp page, but
>what about an image file? I dont want the user to be able to type in the
>path and then be able to acess it like that. And if it there is no work
>around for it at least have the ability to check permissions in a session or
>somewhere before they allow them to go to the actual file. I cannot use a db
>to ref the files for this one.
>
Security of non-jetspeed objects (static content) can only be dealt with 
using Web container security, i.e. HTTP authentication. See the 
Apache/tomcat (or whatever servlet engine you are using) documentation 
for how to protect HTTP resources with authentication.


You could try tricks like allowing only requests that include a certain 
Referer: Header, but these are trivial to break and will not work.

>
>Please Help
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