Re: A CGI Question.

by terry morse <tmorse(at)terrymorse.com>

Date:	Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:17:32 -0700
To:	SDJThorin <sdjthorin(at)geocities.com>
Cc:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
References:	geocities
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>I'm new to Perl & was wondering how I can block calls to a perl
>script from external servers?
>
>ie:	I only want the script to only be accessible from a
>	specific page in a protected directory.
>

The easiest solution is to tell the web server to deny access. Simply 
put a ".htaccess" file in the protected directory that only allows 
access by local IP addresses. See the following for an example:

<http://www.baremetal.com/gadgets/htaccess/access.html>

-terry

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