[SOLVED]RE: [PHP] restricted file access

-----Original Message----- From: tedd [mailto:tedd.sperling@gmail.com] Sent: 28 August 2008 21:19 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] restricted file access At 10:50 AM +0200 8/28/08, Angelo Zanetti wrote: >Thanks for your reply. > >But what happens if the file is situated here: > >www.site.com/include/documents/file.doc > > >and someone knows that path file somehow or they get a program to crawl the >site. Then they would be able to get that file. How do we prevent that? You don't! But file.doc doesn't have to be anything either. Try this: http://sperling.com/file.doc -- you won't find anything there. However, if I wanted something to be there for someone, I could put it there. Understand? ////////////////////////////////////////////// Hi guys I put the documents outside the webroot. And just redirect to it using the Headers and then the readfile() function. Thanks Angelo http://www.elemental.co.za Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php