Webrick and Basic Auth

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Hi

I have a directory of files that I want to share over the net
with Webrick. Basically, I have something simple now where
Webrick mounts the directory and serves up the files. Neat
and simple.

However, I have another set of files that I want to share,
but I want to have only authorized people access them.

Is there a simple way (say by adding htaccess to a directory(s))
to add authentication to a webrick mounted directory?

Sorry if this is a dumb question.

Thanks

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Jim Freeze
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jim@freeze.org wrote:

Hi

I have a directory of files that I want to share over the net
with Webrick. Basically, I have something simple now where
Webrick mounts the directory and serves up the files. Neat
and simple.

However, I have another set of files that I want to share,
but I want to have only authorized people access them.

Is there a simple way (say by adding htaccess to a directory(s))
to add authentication to a webrick mounted directory?

Sorry if this is a dumb question.

Thanks

Is Webrick secure? What's precautions and gotchas should we put our attention too? Also, how the performance?

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Sarah Tanembaum wrote:

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jim@freeze.org wrote:

Hi

I have a directory of files that I want to share over the net
with Webrick. Basically, I have something simple now where
Webrick mounts the directory and serves up the files. Neat
and simple.

However, I have another set of files that I want to share,
but I want to have only authorized people access them.

Is there a simple way (say by adding htaccess to a directory(s))
to add authentication to a webrick mounted directory?

Sorry if this is a dumb question.

Thanks

Is Webrick secure? What's precautions and gotchas should we put our attention too? Also, how the performance?

Hi
Use controller (before_filter) with rubyonrails and the login generator
Peter

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Well, that won't do the OP any good if he isn't using Rails.

There's a sample of Webrick authentication at
http://thekode.net/misc/httpd-auth.txt

Bill

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On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 23:36:25 +0900, Peter Retief <peter@tekboer.tk> wrote:

Sarah Tanembaum wrote:
> jim@freeze.org wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a directory of files that I want to share over the net
>> with Webrick. Basically, I have something simple now where
>> Webrick mounts the directory and serves up the files. Neat
>> and simple.
>>
>> However, I have another set of files that I want to share,
>> but I want to have only authorized people access them.
>>
>> Is there a simple way (say by adding htaccess to a directory(s))
>> to add authentication to a webrick mounted directory?
>>
>> Sorry if this is a dumb question.
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Is Webrick secure? What's precautions and gotchas should we put our
> attention too? Also, how the performance?

Hi
Use controller (before_filter) with rubyonrails and the login generator
Peter

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