a htaccess wont discharge you from being a "public service". As long as you respond from packets from the public, you are a public service, even if you have .htaccess password protection.
For example, Swedish cookie law (requiring you to put a cookie banner if you use cookies on a public website) says that you need to put cookie information in the .htaccess "realm identifier" if you use .htaccess password protection for whole your site, since the site is by definition publicity accessible, if anyone can connect to its IP address. Another way, is to put a cookie page before being redirected or linked to the .htaccess locked section. (This becomes a little danger for those that enable "Remote WAN Administration" on their routers, because then their routers become by definition, a password-protected public service) Only way to survive not being for public, is to have a firewall that blocks public requests except for authorized IP adresses, or not forward its ports, and disable the "Respond on closed ports with a ICMP Port Unreachable" checkbox. Note here that cookie law applies to ALL public websites and services that use cookies - even if you are offering them without remundiation. This because telecommunication law in Sweden is technology neutral, and it doesn't matter if you offer the service in a obscure protocol on like port 9999 requiring some obscure software to use, its still a public service. Thus, asking for a password, IS a response to a packet, and if you respond to a public packet, you are a public service. This is why the "remundiation" part is important. The §5 that was sent to me, says remundiation is required for the service in question to qualify. Do you have the §18 in full? -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: Kai 'wusel' Siering via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> Skickat: den 23 oktober 2022 01:17 Till: mailop@mailop.org Ämne: Re: [mailop] Tangent: Banks and imprint requirements in Germany Am 22.10.22 um 23:55 schrieb Sebastian Nielsen via mailop: > Germany and Sweden do not. And only paid online services require a imprint, > free OR personal online services do not in germany. Seems like §18 Medienstaatsvertrag disagrees. (»(1) Anbieter von Telemedien, die nicht ausschließlich persönlichen oder familiären Zwecken dienen, haben folgende Informationen leicht erkennbar, unmittelbar erreichbar und ständig verfügbar zu halten […]«) As it seems, if your website addresses the general public, or even is accessible by the general public (no htaccess), better put a basic imprint there. If you're ready for German legalese, there's a podcast around this topic from 2021-06-22 at https://rechtsbelehrung.com/impressum-rechtsbelehrung-94/ — in German, obviously ;-) -kai _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
