Hi all,

I'm sure someone has solved this before.

I want no-logged in users to be able to view file areas and file information but not download files over HTTP or HTTPS.

Surely, someone has done this before and hopefully they will share their special sauce :) Thanks.

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Re: View but not download files via web
By: nelgin to All on Sun Aug 10 2025 04:12 am

I want no-logged in users to be able to view file areas and file information but not download files over HTTP or HTTPS.

I'm pretty sure this can be done with ARS. You'd have to add an ARS string for each file library though. For each file library you have, you could go to the Download Requirements and use this string:

PROT!HTTP PROT!HTTPS

That should disallow downloading for both HTTP and HTTPS. I use that for Access Requirements for one of mine, but I imagine it should work for download requirements as well.

Nightfox

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Re: View but not download files via web
By: nelgin to All on Sun Aug 10 2025 04:12 am

Hi all,

I'm sure someone has solved this before.

I want no-logged in users to be able to view file areas and file information but not download files over HTTP or HTTPS.

Surely, someone has done this before and hopefully they will share their special sauce :) Thanks.

Download Requirements = PROT NOT HTTP and NOT HTTPS

but... why?
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Re: View but not download files via web
By: Digital Man to nelgin on Sun Aug 10 2025 14:32:40

Download Requirements = PROT NOT HTTP and NOT HTTPS

That doesn't work.

for my AdventureNet file library (named AV) I have

Download Requirements PROT NOT HTTP AND NOT HTTPS


The file is still offered up via the browser.

but... why?

bbs@bbs:/sbbs/data/logs$ grep call=download http-2025-08-*.log |wc -l
41031


Over 14,000 downloads in 11 days is somewhat dubious. Whether they complete, I have no idea.

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Re: View but not download files via web
By: nelgin to Digital Man on Mon Aug 11 2025 12:50 am

Re: View but not download files via web
By: Digital Man to nelgin on Sun Aug 10 2025 14:32:40

Download Requirements = PROT NOT HTTP and NOT HTTPS

That doesn't work.

for my AdventureNet file library (named AV) I have

Download Requirements PROT NOT HTTP AND NOT HTTPS

The file is still offered up via the browser.

So when I do this, the files are still listed in webv4, but aren't actually clickable/downloadable.

but... why?

bbs@bbs:/sbbs/data/logs$ grep call=download http-2025-08-*.log |wc -l
41031

Over 14,000 downloads in 11 days is somewhat dubious. Whether they complete, I have no idea.

Limiting downloads to non-Guest users would probably take care of that.
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Re: View but not download files via web
By: Digital Man to nelgin on Mon Aug 11 2025 11:24:50

So when I do this, the files are still listed in webv4, but aren't actually clickable/downloadable.

Yup, sorted. My web server is being so hammered that it didn't get a chance to recycle.

Limiting downloads to non-Guest users would probably take care of that.

I'd still like guests to be able to download via ftp, the bbs and gopher.

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