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

[email protected] ("Dale H. Cook")
Newsgroups php.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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 running on my host system in order to access the 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
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