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- From: jqj@duff.uoregon.edu (JQ Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
- Subject: Re: Veronica - problem with servers that impose access restrictions
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 21:59:01 GMT
- Organization: University of Oregon Network Services
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- References: <1992Nov22.221311.13858@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- John Line notes that Veronica presents a problem since many gopher servers
- allow menu items referring to restricted resources (and hence would appear
- in the Veronica listing) but block actual access to the resources. This
- problem should become somewhat less acute when Unix gopherd 1.1 is
- deployed, since it will allow secure gopher servers that block the menu as
- well.
-
- Even better would be a gopherd that checked access rights when generating
- a menu (i.e. a type 1), and did not return items that were inaccessible
- to the particular client.
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