Weird problem here.  Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
This is slightly off-topic, but is still relevant to Tomcat users.

I have a large package of Java classes, which contains half a dozen
subclasses, each with several classes.  Total class count is about 150.

I have Apache linked to Tomcat 4.0.3 using mod_webapp, serving my web
application.  The application consists entirely of JSP pages -- no servlets.
I'm running RedHat 7.3.

Some site functionality is also accessible through a couple of applets,
which allow a more "live" interface when quick interaction is necessary.

The applets and JSP pages make use of many of the same classes.

So, I need to make the class files available via HTTP, so that the applets
can access them.  I could do this with a JAR file, but I'd rather not,
because then the applet clients would end up downloading many classes that
they won't need.  I like the dynamic approach of allowing the applet to
selectively download only the classes it needs, and as far as I know,
applets have no way of doing that with JAR files.

However, I'd like to hide my class files, so that a user can't download them
and keep them on his computer.  I have a level of security by obscurity
here, as the classes are in a directory that nothing ever links to.
However, anyone could look at the source to one of the applet pages and
easily find this directory.

Am I missing a possibility here?  Does anyone have an idea?

I also would like to disable directory index listings in this hidden
folder -- how do I do that?  I didn't find it in the Tomcat documentation,
and since I'm using mod_webapp, I can't do it in Apache.

-Jake





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