the answers are not exhaustive but may help as needed
Is HFS using real alphabetical indexing for filenames?
Menu > Other options > Default sorting
Can I restrict direct access to directory, and only allow people to download files ONLY if they know the exact file name? (and use direct link to the file)?
add desired directory to VFS as real folder, set properties flags: Recursively hidden =ON , Browsable= OFF
the user must know the exact url to access each downloadable file
Can I restrict types of clients that can access files hosted by HFS?
blue values must be substings of User-Agent
Result by using Firefox
Forbidden
Your browser is not compatible with this server
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0
Unfortunately, what I need is to limit access based on UserAgent only to couple of specific folders. Does anyone know how to do this?
yes, it's possible to cause browser redirection function to a specific folder based on different user-agent
one solution is to have a common directory for redirection and sub directories as folder1 and folder2 and redirect the user to the common folder when his user-agent is in a specific list separated by "|"
to solve the problem I have used this method:
When the user-agent contains one of substrings in the macro "for each"
and if the path (from root) does not start as defined in macro "set"
then the user is redirected to defined folder.
Is HFS using real alphabetical indexing for filenames?
Menu > Other options > Default sorting
Can I restrict direct access to directory, and only allow people to download files ONLY if they know the exact file name? (and use direct link to the file)?
add desired directory to VFS as real folder, set properties flags: Recursively hidden =ON , Browsable= OFF
the user must know the exact url to access each downloadable file
Can I restrict types of clients that can access files hosted by HFS?
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[]only users using Chrome or Internet Explorer will not be disconnected
......
<body>
{.for each|agent|Chrome|MSIE|{:{.if not|{.pos|{.^agent.}|{.header|User-Agent.}.}|{:{.disconnection reason| Your browser is not compatible with this server <p> {.header|User-Agent.}.}:}/if.}:}.}
blue values must be substings of User-Agent
Result by using Firefox
Forbidden
Your browser is not compatible with this server
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0
Unfortunately, what I need is to limit access based on UserAgent only to couple of specific folders. Does anyone know how to do this?
yes, it's possible to cause browser redirection function to a specific folder based on different user-agent
one solution is to have a common directory for redirection and sub directories as folder1 and folder2 and redirect the user to the common folder when his user-agent is in a specific list separated by "|"
to solve the problem I have used this method:
When the user-agent contains one of substrings in the macro "for each"
and if the path (from root) does not start as defined in macro "set"
then the user is redirected to defined folder.
Quote
[]
......
<body>
{.for each|agent|Chrome|Firefox|{:
{.set|goto|/redirect_folder/.}
{.if not|{.=|1|{.pos|{.^goto.}|%folder%.}.}|{:
{.if|{.pos|{.^agent.}|{.header|User-Agent.}.}|{:{.redirect|{.^goto.}.}:}.}
:}.}
:}.}
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