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     Re: View but not download fil   
     By: Mike Powell to DIGITAL MAN on Mon Aug 11 2025 09:36 am   
      
    > >  > Surely, someone has done this before and hopefully they will share   
    > >  > their special sauce :) Thanks.   
    >   
    > > Download Requirements = PROT NOT HTTP and NOT HTTPS   
    >   
    > > but... why?   
    >   
    > Not sure why he wanted it, but I know what I needed it for.   
    >   
    > I enjoyed offering older DOS programs up for download for anyone, user or   
    > not.  However, the companies that scan systems for files and then blacklist   
    > them do not like older programs, especially ones that might be compressed   
    > with PKLITE or some other process.   
    >   
    > Those being available get flagged, then you start getting a bunch of   
    > complaints that other sysops (who use these defense products on their   
    > Windows machines) can no longer connect via binkp, and from users who can   
    > no longer connect via even telnet.   
    >   
    > That latter group will get an error pop-up from the product, so you know   
    > what is causing it.  The companies, since you are not a customer of theirs,   
    > are not very motivated to remove your info from their blacklists.   
    > It is a real PITA.   
      
   Maybe just disallow Guest from downloading (or downloading via HTTP/HTTPS). To   
   disallow all your users from downloading via HTTP/HTTPS seems like an   
   over-reaction to me.   
      
   But for decades, Vertrauen has allowed non-authenticated and guest users to   
   download all files (including old ones compressed with PKLITE) via HTTP/HTTPS   
   and I've never had the issue describe. Maybe I've just been lucky.   
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                                               digital man (rob)   
      
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