Mads Rosendahl wrote:
That would be my preferred solution as well.Or simply specify the file as default-document for the site/folder with DirectoryIndex?I never use "Options Indexes" !!! I don't want to allow directory browsing, unless needed in specialcases. For security reasons.By why would you want to do it this way to begin with? It is not common to have a pdf-file as default document. You will only have problems with it, and confused users. And you can't specify HTML metaheaders such as title, keywords, author and so on. Just some thoughts:When you send non-html content to users, the response header Content-Type is used by the client to determine what to do with it, in this case "Content-Type: application/pdf". Apache uses the filename suffix to determine mime-type, as specified in /etc/mime.types in linux. Will apache return the correct Content-Type header when the requested resource is a folder? Just a thought.... Otherwise the browserwill get really confused.
Thanks for the comments. I realise this isnt a good thing to do, but Im just helping someone out... they had given a url to many users for a guidebook... The people who gave the link (printed in a document) dont think of these things. I have suggested using php header() but also noted that this will require people have a plugin so the page actually opens... Im surprised that they didnt actually use a html template for this information, since they give a web address for it, but there you go :)
Thanks again for the comments! Eoghan --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|