You might be confusing the ssl certificate with the web server feature that displays 
the username/password dialog to access directories... I can't remember offhand what 
the name of it is, but I know it's not the same thing.

> I just discovered something that astonished me.  Inside a
> secure directory
> ( http://statistics.cyberk.com/cyberstats/ )
> I have an images folder.  Of course this dir uses the
> Application.cfm file which is in the main cyberstats dir.
> I have no problem getting to content inside a subdirectory
> of
> this protected directory, e.g.,
> http://statistics.cyberk.com/cyberstats/images/answer2.gif

> I thought nothing could be accessed in or under a secure
> directory without login.  Yet it turns out I can not only
> pull
> images from the secure site easily into an html file
> anywhere
> on the internet (!), but if I know the filename I can
> directly
> access them too.

> Is this normal, or have I seriously screwed up my CF
> security?

> PJ


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