Re: [phplib] protecting folders with phplib From: Davor Cengija (dcengija <email protected>)
Date: 11/15/00

Daniel Bondurant <bondu <email protected>> writes:

> is there anyway to protect an entire folder with phplib?
> I have a bunch of binary files that I want to limit access to.
>
> They are (mostly) thumbnails of images, and the orginal images, and I will
> be displaying 30 at a time.
> I could use fread to pull the thumbnails out of a protected directory, but
> that would be 30 authentications (plus the page itself) for each page. Is
> there any way to give authenticate the entire folder, and all it's contents
> with phplib without excessive authenticating?

        I don't think PHPLib is the right answer for you. Maybe you
        should check .htaccess functionality, if you are using Apache,
        or equivalent for some other web server. After thinking a
        little about your problem, I really don't see how PHPLib could
        protect the complete content of the directory (a user can
        always type http://www.tralala.com/dir/image01.gif and avoid
        PHPLib auth.)

        If you are trying to avoid .htaccess-like type of
        authentification, maybe you could try with mod_rewrite, and
        rewrite every URL in affected directories to point to the PHPLib
        protected file. 

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