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  Re: View but not download fil
  By: Mike Powell to DIGITAL MAN on Mon Aug 11 2025 09:36 am

 > >  > 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?
 >
 > Not sure why he wanted it, but I know what I needed it for.
 >
 > I enjoyed offering older DOS programs up for download for anyone, user or
 > not.  However, the companies that scan systems for files and then blacklist
 > them do not like older programs, especially ones that might be compressed
 > with PKLITE or some other process.
 >
 > Those being available get flagged, then you start getting a bunch of
 > complaints that other sysops (who use these defense products on their
 > Windows machines) can no longer connect via binkp, and from users who can
 > no longer connect via even telnet.
 >
 > That latter group will get an error pop-up from the product, so you know
 > what is causing it.  The companies, since you are not a customer of theirs,
 > are not very motivated to remove your info from their blacklists.
 > It is a real PITA.

Maybe just disallow Guest from downloading (or downloading via HTTP/HTTPS). To
disallow all your users from downloading via HTTP/HTTPS seems like an
over-reaction to me.

But for decades, Vertrauen has allowed non-authenticated and guest users to
download all files (including old ones compressed with PKLITE) via HTTP/HTTPS
and I've never had the issue describe. Maybe I've just been lucky.
-- 
                                            digital man (rob)

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