Re: authentication/access control for static files

2006-09-29 Thread Maximillian Dornseif
In my application I'm not concerned about people giving the urls of static files to others but people guessing filenames (this is called "Browsing" or "URL Tampering" by some.) I counter this by setting "Options -Indexes" in the apache configuration and changing the filename to something

Re: authentication/access control for static files

2006-09-28 Thread Bedros Hanounik
thanks, that's exactly what I'm looking for.On 9/28/06, Ivan Sagalaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Bedros Hanounik wrote:> thanks for the quick response; that should work for me for now (low > traffic); but I wonder how it scales with high traffic site. Also, any> idea how this may apply to

Re: Re: authentication/access control for static files

2006-09-28 Thread James Bennett
On 9/28/06, Bedros Hanounik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for the quick response; that should work for me for now (low > traffic); but I wonder how it scales with high traffic site. Also, any idea > how this may apply to lighttpd. The PythonAuthenHandler directive used to make this work is

Re: authentication/access control for static files

2006-09-28 Thread Bedros Hanounik
thanks for the quick response; that should work for me for now (low traffic); but I wonder how it scales with high traffic site. Also, any idea how this may apply to lighttpd. On 9/28/06, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> for

Re: authentication/access control for static files

2006-09-28 Thread James Bennett
On 9/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for example, I have a dynamic page created, which has a url pointing to > a static file on another server. Django provides a mechanism for extending Apache's own authentication to check against the Django user database, but this requires

authentication/access control for static files

2006-09-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm planning to play with django and I am totally a django noob. my question is how can I set access control of static files on a separate server. for example, I have a dynamic page created, which has a url pointing to a static file on another server. if I have access to both servers; how can