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Topic: Protect from leeching? |
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Joao
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Greetings,
I am looking at purchasing FM SiteSearchPro, but I am wondering if it can be used for what I plan to use it. Any help appreciated. Here's the scneario:
I want to have a folder with a number of files (shtml or txt, to be decided);
Number of files will be in the hundreds, if not thousands, as each file will be a book chapter.
I want to use SSP to search the files and output the results, as normaly would with a site search... only I will restrict searches to this folder (or folders, as I may decide to have each book in a folder.)
What I need to avoid, is leeching of files and people spidering the website and downloading the books...
I though of putting SSP in the cgi-bin, and then, adding the books as subfolders... as usually, cgi-bin access is not allowed... but... will SSP work this way?
I can remove the URL variable from the returns page, but it does not prevent unauthorized access...
I have seen scripts (both CGI and PHP) that use no direct URLs when outputting results, so people never know where the files/pages being parsed&searched are loccated... but they do not provide stats - something I would like to have!
If the above is not a solution, any ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Joao
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If you can password protect the directories containing the books with for example .htaccess files then it should be safe. When users search the contents they can enter the protected area (protected documents) only if they have a password.
Miles
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