Re: [PHP] Accessing Files Outside the Web Root

2013-03-15 Thread Dale H. Cook
ring the copyright for my files with LOC, as my attorneys have advised. That will give my attorneys ammunition. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net -- PHP General Mailing

Re: FW: [PHP] Accessing Files Outside the Web Root

2013-03-15 Thread Dale H. Cook
script which actually delivers the file, as the latter script is located outside of the web root. Dale H. Cook, Market Chief Engineer, Centennial Broadcasting, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA http://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe,

Re: [PHP] Re: Accessing Files Outside the Web Root

2013-03-14 Thread Dale H. Cook
f the reasons why I do not sub any list in digest mode. :-) Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Accessing Files Outside the Web Root - Progress Report 1

2013-03-14 Thread Dale H. Cook
["DOCUMENT_ROOT"], and then using truncation and concatenation. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] Accessing Files Outside the Web Root

2013-03-14 Thread Dale H. Cook
her avoid dealing with registration. All in all, I'd rather use a server-side approach incorporating methods to differentiate between human visitors and bad bots. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb P

[PHP] Accessing Files Outside the Web Root - Progress Report 1

2013-03-14 Thread Dale H. Cook
lation (once I get the hang of some additional PHP string manipulation functions). Then I can move on to making my script bot-resistant before implementing it on my site. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb P

Re: [PHP] Re: Accessing Files Outside the Web Root

2013-03-14 Thread Dale H. Cook
h pages and the ways that humans deal with pages. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://

Re: FW: [PHP] Accessing Files Outside the Web Root

2013-03-14 Thread Dale H. Cook
accessing those external files from my script, and now I'm working out the parsing details that enable one script to access multiple external files. My approach probably won't defeat all bad bots, but it will likely defeat most of them. You can't make code bulletproof, but you can

Re: FW: [PHP] Accessing Files Outside the Web Root

2013-03-13 Thread Dale H. Cook
rcial domain, and I provide free hosting for other non-commercial genealogical works, primarily pages that are part of the USGenWeb Project, which is perhaps the largest of all non-commercial genealogical projects. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth

Re: FW: [PHP] Accessing Files Outside the Web Root

2013-03-13 Thread Dale H. Cook
curity settings imposed by Acrobat Pro. The use of robots.txt would succeed mainly in blocking major search engines, which are not the problem. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project Administrator of http://plymouthcolo

[PHP] Accessing Files Outside the Web Root

2013-03-13 Thread Dale H. Cook
tutorials that might help me? Remember that, aside from the code I have written to handle my SQL database I am a PHP novice. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net -- PHP