RE: Security Challenge

by "Jason K. Chapman" <theguild(at)interserv.com>

 Date:  Wed, 03 Jan 2001 08:24:42 -0500
 To:  hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
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>Object
>---------
>To prevent *.exe & *.zip files from being downloaded, except from
>a link on a page at the site. Server is Linux with Apache 1.3.12.

Why not simply have the script send the appropriate headers and the file 
directly.  Worst case, the user has to rename the file from "script.pl" to 
"whatever.zip/exe/etc."

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