Re: [PHP] Accessing Files Outside the Web Root

2013-03-15 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 09:27 AM 3/15/2013, Stuart Dallas wrote: >You'll have to pursue legal avenues to prevent it being made available, and >that's usually prohibitively expensive. Not necessarily. Most of the host systems for the scraper sites are responsive to my complaints. Even if a site owner will not respon

Re: [PHP] Accessing Files Outside the Web Root

2013-03-15 Thread Stuart Dallas
On 15 Mar 2013, at 13:11, "Dale H. Cook" wrote: > At 09:44 PM 3/14/2013, tamouse mailing lists wrote: > >> If you are delivering files to a (human) user via their browser, by whatever >> mechanism, that means someone can write a script to scrape them. > > That script, however, would have to be

Re: [PHP] Accessing Files Outside the Web Root

2013-03-14 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 12:40 PM 3/14/2013, Ravi Gehlot wrote: >In order to address the problem, you should create a "Members Restricted Area" You need to understand my target demo to understand my approach. Much of my target audience for those files is elderly and not very computer savvy. Having to register for ac

Re: [PHP] Accessing Files Outside the Web Root

2013-03-14 Thread Ravi Gehlot
Hello Dale, The spiders are not the only problem. The issue here is that anyone can download your files from your website and then make them available elsewhere. In order to address the problem, you should create a "Members Restricted Area" where members only could download your files. You can the