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

MRJ InfoTech Admin admin at mrjdesign.net
Thu Apr 20 09:01:05 CEST 2006


Yup true... way to early here still. Sorry about that.
Thanks Francis. ;)


At 07:59 20/04/2006, you wrote:
>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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