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Overview
Comment: | Update the althttpd documentation. |
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User & Date: | drh 2020-03-03 14:07:04.437 |
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2020-03-04
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20:27 | Small update to deterministic.html to mention generated columns. (check-in: 37b0c51a67 user: drh tags: trunk) | |
2020-03-03
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14:07 | Update the althttpd documentation. (check-in: c7f0891d15 user: drh tags: trunk) | |
13:59 | In the althttpd.c webserver, relax the constraint that filenames cannot begin with "." or "-" for the special "/.well-known/" path. The constraint remains for any URL that does not begin with "/.well-known/". And ".." is still disallowed. This change is necessary due to recent changes to the LetsEncrypt certbot. (check-in: 7027e3e86d user: drh tags: trunk) | |
Changes
Changes to misc/althttpd.md.
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228 229 230 231 232 233 234 | if any path element of the request URI begins with "." or "-" then althttpd always returns a 404 Not Found error. Thus is it safe to put auxiliary files (databases or other content used by CGI, for example) in the document hierarchy as long as the filenames being with "." or "-". An exception: Though althttpd normally returns 404 Not Found for any request with a path element beginning with ".", it does allow requests | | > > | | 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 | if any path element of the request URI begins with "." or "-" then althttpd always returns a 404 Not Found error. Thus is it safe to put auxiliary files (databases or other content used by CGI, for example) in the document hierarchy as long as the filenames being with "." or "-". An exception: Though althttpd normally returns 404 Not Found for any request with a path element beginning with ".", it does allow requests where the URI begins with "/.well-known/". And file or directory names below "/.well-known/" are allowed to begin with "." or "-" (but not with ".."). This exception is necessary to allow LetsEncrypt to validate ownership of the website. Basic Authentication -------------------- If a file named "-auth" appears anywhere within the content hierarchy, then all sibling files and all files in lower-level directories require [HTTP basic authentication](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication), |
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