Re: How do I prevent anybody from looking at the contents of my text files ?

Add the ".cgi" extension to your text files. If a visitor attempts to view it from a web broswer, they should get a 500.

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Re: Answer: How do I prevent anybody from looking at the contents of my text files ? by mowgli (Friar) on Feb 10, 2003 at 10:19 UTC
Obviously, this also depends on the configuration of your web server. With apache, a line like AddHandler cgi-script .cgi in to your `httpd.conf` will do the Right Thing (after you restart apache). -- mowgli	[reply]