Can't retrieve a text file from a remote CGI folder

[Shawn Blc]

The cgi-bin is primarily for scripts to be executed.  Try to put your text
file outside of the cgi- bin and read it from there.



On Wednesday, April 10, 2013, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 4/10/13 9:52 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
>
>> I think the cgi folder is special (read only) to Apache for security by
>> design. I've never been able to write to it except by FTP.  But I didn't
>> try that hard ....
>>
>
> But I do only want to read from it. I think you're right that permissions
> won't allow remote reading, otherwise anyone could read the scripts in
> there.
>
> Except...by supplying my user name and password in the url, I'm
> identifying myself as the owner, and the owner does have full permissions.
>
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