[788] in Intrusion Detection Systems
Re: DL fils on WWW pages from FTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Troy)
Sun Dec 1 20:53:56 1996
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 04:23:32 -0500
From: infoline@hutton.net (Troy)
To: ids@uow.edu.au
Reply-To: ids@uow.edu.au
Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
>
> At 02:28 PM 11/25/96 -0100, you wrote:
> >HI!
> >
> >I heard that you have a lot of experience with WEB and I hope you can give
> >me some good advice to solve my problem.
> >So this software must control DL files from WWW pages, through username and
> >password (person get this password and username before) to reach file. And
> >password is just for one download, so if the transfer is not seccesfull the
> >person which DL file can DL file with the same pass again.
> >
> >This software must include ganerating pass and username and control DL files
> >from WWW.
> >Do you know for some software which can solve this problem?
> >
>
> No, I don't recall seeing such software. To resolve the problem, you could
> make your own CGI script which would generate the password plus username and
> allow the individual to download/re-download the file. That's seems to be
> the most cheapiest solution..
>
> Hm.m..Or you can try Java..
Actually You can use NCSA web standards for HTML, there is a way to
create a ".htpasswd" file and you can validate users access this way and
not need any special software.
(note: this approach has many more robust features, You can ask me more
specific needs)
--
Troy Billington
SysOp: InfoLine BBS systems
(305) 598-2679 Miami, Fl
"http://www.hutton.net/infoline"
