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[Tony Alfrey]

Ken Moffat wrote:
> Tony Alfrey wrote:

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>>
>> Good.  So in other words, if I want to use a_directory as a place to 
>> put a file that I would like to transfer to someone who knows its 
>> existence and path to it, and said file is no earth-shaking security 
>> issue, and there are no links to the file within the pages on the 
>> parent directory, then it's a relatively "secure" way to send the file?
>>
>>
>>
> That's my opinion, but just to be safe, put an index.html file in each 
> directory, so if someone goes to that directory they don't get a listing 
> of files, they see the index.html contents.
> 
> ken
> 

That's perfect!  This trick is also in the tutorial that Jorge just 
pointed me to.  I'll try this first because I don't have huge lists of 
things to  protect.

Thanks to everyone for the hints!


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