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

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Wed Apr 10 23:08:41 EDT 2013


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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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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