htaccess and mime types

[webmaster <we...@StuckMic.com>]

Hi all,

A real newbie here with a question.

I'm using an htaccess file to protect a directory of large gifs and 
sounds. Here is what i've written:

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AuthUserFile /dev/null
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.myserver.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://myserver.com [NC]
RewriteRule /* http://www.myserver.com/error.mv [R,L]
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The problem i'm having is, somebody may try to directly access my 
directory looking for a file named "lookatme.gif", they get forwarded 
to the error page, but the browser receives the error page and 
downloads it as "lookatme.gif". Of course when the person tries to 
open it they get an error message because the received file is not a 
".gif" file but html text.

I'm reading my Apache bible and the section on MIME types and my 
question is: Is there a way to modify the htaccess file so that 
regardless of the file requested (".gif", ".wav", ".jpg", etc.) they 
would receive a file recognizable as an html document or a plain text 
file when clicked on?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Paul Williams
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Re: htaccess and mime types

[Geoffrey Young <ge...@modperlcookbook.org>]

> I'm reading my Apache bible and the section on MIME types and my
> question is: Is there a way to modify the htaccess file so that
> regardless of the file requested (".gif", ".wav", ".jpg", etc.) they
> would receive a file recognizable as an html document or a plain
> text file when clicked on?

well, I'm not sure exactly what you're after, but I run this
PerlFixupHandler on a Cobalt where I don't have the ability to really
get at the phases the way I want to (through the AddHandler directive
and so on, which is probably the most proper way to do it)...

package Custom::Unscript;

use Apache::Constants qw(OK DECLINED);
use strict;

sub handler {

  my $r = shift;

  my ($extension) = $r->filename =~ m!(\.[^.]+)$!;

  # un-script a bunch of stuff
  if ($extension eq '.pl'   ||
      $extension eq '.PL'   ||
      $extension eq '.html' ||
      $extension eq '.ksh'  ||
      $extension eq '.ppm'  ||
      $extension eq '.xml'  ||
      $extension eq '.xls'  ||
      $extension eq '.rss'       ) {
    $r->content_type('text/plain');
    $r->handler('default-handler');
    return OK;
  }

  return DECLINED;
}
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Re: htaccess and mime types

[Andy Lester <an...@petdance.com>]

> I'm reading my Apache bible and the section on MIME types and my
> question is: Is there a way to modify the htaccess file so that
> regardless of the file requested (".gif", ".wav", ".jpg", etc.) they
> would receive a file recognizable as an html document or a plain text
> file when clicked on?

Whyncha just have it return a 403 ?

xoxo,
Andy

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