Prevent abuse of public HTTP directory meant for images

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Published on 2010-06-07T00:02:34Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 0:12 UTC
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The situation: Each user has their own public HTTP directory, meant for images only. This could easily be abused by users using it to serve large files, wasting bandwidth.

The question: Is there any fairly simple way to prevent this abuse? Either by allowing the webserver to only images to be served, restricting size, or some other method.

Prevent abuse of public HTTP directory meant for images

Posted by sutre on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by sutre
Published on 2010-06-07T00:02:34Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 2:02 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 266

Filed under:

lighttpd

The situation: Each user has their own public HTTP directory, meant for images only. This could easily be abused by users using it to serve large files, wasting bandwidth.

The question: Is there any fairly simple way to prevent this abuse? Either by allowing the webserver to only images to be served, restricting size, or some other method.

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