[PLUG] File upload siteor

[wes]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net>wrote:

> John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > On further thought, I wonder if I could password protect it. It occurs
> > to me that the file is a recording of a subject in a dialect study. I
> > have permission to use his voice data for academic research purposes,
> > but not to make it available to the entire world. I doubt that it would
> > be a problem, but it would be nicer to have a little control. I could
> > just make a password and give it to the students who are entitled to
> > have the file. But password control probably opens a whole new
> > dimension to the problem.
> >
> One solution is to create a separate directory on your site and not link
> to it from the main page's index.html file. You give the link to the
> directory to students you want to see it and they can get there. The
> rest of the world won't see it. This isn't good enough for real
> security, but may be good enough for what you are doing. Here's an example:
>
> My personal site is:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~rsteff/ <http://home.comcast.net/%7Ersteff/>
>
> There are only two links on that page. However, I have a few other
> directories on the site, each with their own index.html file. An example
> is:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~rsteff/2007-Bathroom-Remodel/<http://home.comcast.net/%7Ersteff/2007-Bathroom-Remodel/>
>
> So, simply make a copy of your current index.html file, edit out the
> Language Variation part of the original and save that. Create a new
> directory called LanguageVariation (or something that makes sense to
> you). Move both the mp3 file and the copy of index.html to the new
> directory, making sure the name is changed back to index.html. Edit out
> the IPA4Linguists part, if desired, and you're done.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>

Seconded. I use this very same method on my own site. Have for years, never
had a problem (and I do skim my logs periodically).

-wes