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Re: Insecure handling of Apache restrictions?


From: White Vampire <whitevampire () mindless com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:27:43 -0400

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 01:59:23PM -0400, Stewart(bdlists () snerk org) wrote:
You could add a statement to your DocumentRoot section like so;

RedirectPermanent "/~user" "http://user.blablah.com/";

Which would force browsers to access the page via the 'proper' means, 
rather than via the back door. Besides; if a user has their own 
sub-domain, why would they want a tilde site anyways?

        As a backup regarding domain and/or DNS issues.  It can prove
quite useful, at least it has for me in the past.

        It should truly not be that much of an issue.  There are a
myriad of approaches for the authentication Apache provides.  .htaccess
is a good approach, and the most common method.

Regards,
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