Anonymoose wrote
Other than using an anti-leech script to prevent direct access of files you don't want to be accessed other than by a direct reference from a webpage, I can't see how you expect the server to be able to prevent this?
other than by a direct reference from .....Abyss.
I tell abyss once that visitors can; Read,Write,Alter or execute from specific maps. Now Abyss knows this and only permits or denies these actions to all visitors.
Then I tell Abyss which programs ( or Perl or CGI files ) may execute on my webserver ( does so already in the CGI settings ) and permits these programs to R, W or Alter files on my webserver ( need to to keep forum and guestbook running, capice ? )
So now Abyss runs safely on my win32 server and I can set file access ( from win32 point of view ) to non sharing and disallow users from accessing it from the outside ( I know no other way to say this sorry )
I wanted I could explain it beter, but I simply can't ( dutch and dumb I guess ;-) )