Re: deny file types

> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:13:40AM -0300, Martin Sarsale wrote:
> > Now: we've configured mathopd to run on the same server, with the same
> > document root, but we need to configure it to deny the request of any
> > file which is not one of: *gif, *jpg, *png.
> 
> Martin, you can use ``Dummy'' directive:
> 
> Specials { 
> 	Dummy { html htm }
> }
> 
> Documentation says:
> This control block overrides the type declaration for html and htm                      
> extensions, effectively hiding these files, even if they were
> to exist physically.
> 

Instead of listing all forbidden file extensions here, it may be much easier
to hide all files via Dummy directive and make only images visible:

Types {
	image/gif { gif }
	image/jpeg { jpg jpeg }
}
Specials {
	Dummy { * }
}


Ja.