* On 16/06/06 13:02 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
| On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 02:33:57PM +0300, Odhiambo G. Washington said:
| > * On 16/06/06 11:57 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
| > | On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:24:25PM +0300, Odhiambo G. Washington said:
| > | > I have a server that I use for hosting websites. I simply give ftp
| > | > access and the customer just uploads their web content. The problem
| > | > comes in the name of some code used in these websites - they allow
| > | > http-put and http-post by spammers.
| > |
| > | This is better solved in apache, I would think - use a Limit directive
| > | to stop these customers from allowing spamming. If they fix the code,
| > | turn it back on.
| >
| > I cannot do this for several hundred web customers, or do you reckon I
| > should?;)
|
| I use mod_template here, and it's easy enough to define a template that
| allows POST and PUT, and one that doesn't, and just change the Use line
| for a customer site depending on their code trustworthiness.
It's a new feature I am hearing about today, since I've never ventured
onto those sides, perhaps because the need hadn't arisen.
| > It sounds a draconian method.
|
| It is. Unfortunately, the customer isn't always right.
In our organization, you dare not say that, even when it's obvious.
The "customer is always right, especially when they are wrong" because
the "customer is king" if they are paying ;)
cheers
- wash
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