webZip

[Jayme Assuncao Casimiro]

Look ate the WebZip program description:
Save reference material, online books, e-zines, news articles and other
Web content to your hard drive and browse them anywhere, anytime - fast!"

Is there any way of protecting my .php ant other files agains't these type
of programs.

Thnaks

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| Jayme Assuncao Casimiro |
| Graduado em Ciência da Computação |
| Estudante de Mestrado em Computação |
| Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG |
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[Ron Barnett]

Re: webZip

Jayme Assuncao Casimiro <jayme@dcc.ufmg .br> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX. 4.44.0311191719 160.17810-100000@piaba.dc c.ufmg.br>...[color=blue]
> Look ate the WebZip program description:
> Save reference material, online books, e-zines, news articles and other
> Web content to your hard drive and browse them anywhere, anytime - fast!"
>
> Is there any way of protecting my .php ant other files agains't these type
> of programs.
>
> Thnaks
>
> +---------------------------------------------+
> | Jayme Assuncao Casimiro |
> | Graduado em Ci ncia da Computa o |
> | Estudante de Mestrado em Computa o |
> | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG |
> +---------------------------------------------+[/color]
Jayme.

AFAIK, These programs are only automated browsers.
They request pages from the web servers and save the output in files.
A human user with Internet Explorer / Mozilla / Whatever could achieve
just the same result by using the browser's 'save as' function when
viewing a page.

Your PHP files should be safe as long as the webserver executes
(interprets) the code as it should.

If you have data or other files you wish to keep hidden there should
be an htaccess mechanism on your webserver to prevent unauthorised
access.

The real threat is in someone gaining access at the command prompt
level on your webserver and using 'nix to send files back to
themselves.

Anyone else have a view ?

Ron

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Re: webZip

Jayme Assuncao Casimiro <jayme@dcc.ufmg .br> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX. 4.44.0311191719 160.17810-100000@piaba.dc c.ufmg.br>...[color=blue]
> Look ate the WebZip program description:
> Save reference material, online books, e-zines, news articles and other
> Web content to your hard drive and browse them anywhere, anytime - fast!"
>
> Is there any way of protecting my .php ant other files agains't these type
> of programs.[/color]

Findout the "user agent" of that software and use mod rewrite

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html

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[Chris Lamson]

Re: webZip

There is a program out there called WebProtect which encrypts files, and
then uses an equation to decrypt them when they are accessed.