[lug] Distributing photos on-line (for free, but not public)

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Fri May 27 09:15:49 MDT 2011


Davide Del Vento wrote:
> - or, you can provide a "weak" authentication, in which no account is
> required from the viewer, but anybody knowing the URL can see it (so
> it's kinda open, although not indexed in Google Search itself, and
> uses robots.txt trying to not be indexed by other search engines -
> however it can easily spread to "public" if the URL is posted, say, in
> a forum)

Does the weak authentication allow uploads?  If not, this might be good enough if you remove the 
pictures after a time, limiting the exposure to the URL becoming public.  Run it by your security 
policy people.

Dave



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