[Xitami] block downloading PDF files to local machine whenviewing them online

[Francis Turner]

Actually you mean defaults.aut not defaults.cfg

The whole process is dcescribed in the Xitami manual -
http://www.imatix.com/html/xitami/index3.htm


On 4/20/06, MRJ InfoTech Admin <admin at mrjdesign.net> wrote:
>
>  When you do the installation of Xitami it automatically creates a folder in
> the WEBFOLDER directory called PRIVATE
>  This is password protected.
>
>  I have note made use of it myself as I use different techniques that are
> more or less hidden from Xitami even, but study the user manual for password
> and security settings for this folder and you will find out how to do it.
>
>
>  You should be able to define a sub folder for this folder for each
> individual user you wish to grant specific access, and simply specify in the
> defaults.cfg or xitami.cfg and related aut files how users usernames and
> passwords are related to certain sub directories.
>
>  I hope this helps you a bit on the way.
>
>
>  At 07:48 20/04/2006, you wrote:
>
> Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
>  Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>           boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C66446.623EF699"
>
>
>
>  Can you advise me on how to do to keep a copy only in a password protected
> folder?
>
>  Regards
>  HQ
>
>
>
> From: xitami-bounces at lists.xitami.org [
> mailto:xitami-bounces at lists.xitami.org] On Behalf Of MRJ
> InfoTech Admin
>  Sent: 2006$BG/(B 4 $B7n(B20 $BF|(B 14:13
>
>  To: Xitami Users General Discussion
>  Subject: Re: [Xitami] block downloading PDF files to local machine
> whenviewing them online
>
>
>  Some attempts to block such downloads can only be done in HTML code with
> the pragma meta tag for NOCHACHE however it doesn't work really well because
> of how different browsers read the code.
>
>  The best protection from download, is to not put the documents in the
> public directory at all.
>  If you need them online for your internal use, try keeping a copy only in a
> password protected folder and not in the public path.
>
>
>  At 03:39 20/04/2006, you wrote:
>
>
>  Hi,
>
>  I am using Xitami version 2.5b4 as my web server on Windows XP
>  professional version 2002.
>
>  I found that my documents - PDF files are downloaded automatically to a
>  machine which user uses to view them online. Is there any way that can
>  block the downloading?
>
>  Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>  HQ
>
>
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