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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Hiding folder (another old question)

« on: November 12, 2014, 11:40:36 AM »

There's a thread on the forum about showing or hiding a subfolder of a real folder, using FOLDERNAME or \FOLDERNAME, but that thread doesn't help in some situations. The problem is that often a folder (real or virtual) may have numerous subfolders sharing the same name.

For example there may be numerous folders all titled "LOG", or files titled "output.log", if the real folder in HFS is a tree of daily backups. Perhaps just one of those needs to be "hidden":

ROOT (real folder)
-- \20140101
---- \SanitisedData
---- \SanitisedLogs
-- \20140102
---- \SanitisedData
---- \SanitisedLogs
etc

On one day, 8 March 2014, private data was accidentally not purged from the day's log files. All other logs are fine and should be accessible but that specific folder must be hidden. One needs to be able to show or hide an exact path X:\ArchivedResults\20140308\SanitisedLogs and no other folder.

Can this show/hide, with a specific folder path not just a specific foldername, be done in HFS?

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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Old question but...

« on: November 12, 2014, 10:29:23 AM »

I can see on the forum several people asked, and were told long ago, that there is no logout button, they should just "close their browser".

I just visited my HFS server in IE11 (Win8.1), opening a new tab to do so. I finished with my session, so I closed the tab as indicated by the info pages on HFS. In theory if it's stateless and just using HTTP header information, that information should have all been lost when I close the tab. But that isn't what happened. I opened a new tab and retyped the server URL "fresh", and it returned me to the logged-in page immediately.


1) Where is the login-state information that I am seeing, after closing the tab and in a fresh tab retyping the URL, coming from? Is there some other persistent mechanism at play that needs some different kind of logout process?

2) Most browsers by default auto-preserve session data in case of crash, or if the user may wish to undo the close action in this or a subsequent session. As it's unlikely that HFS will be the only tab in use, and one cannot easily verify whether session data is always deleted, does this mean that someone else can retype the URL or reopen the last closed tab, and will find state is auto-restored for it, in many cases? If that's likely, then what precautions are needed in addition to closing the tab, to ensure the server session cannot be resumed by simply CTRL-T "undo close tab" or "restore last session"?

3) Can the server distinguish between an open but idle session (the browser is open, requests would be valid but are not being "clicked") and a closed one (the browser has been closed or the computer or link have crashed, requests should not be valid unless logged in again)?  If not then it's hard to know what to set for a login that should be left open indefinitely but with login required upon each new session.


Any help on these appreciated, thanks

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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Error on starting, peerhaps template related?

« on: October 05, 2014, 12:42:57 AM »

I used to use an old version of HFS on Win7 x64 and it worked very well. So I have again downloaded it (2.3d) and configured it on Win 8.1 x64, but instead of a file tree the user gets a warning: "this template is only to be used with HFS 2.3 (and macros enabled)".

I know templates were added in 2.3, but HFS should surely still work and not give an error "out of the box"? I have rechecked the download page in case I missed anything, it just says "HFS is a single executable file. No need to install. Download and run... it's up & ready!" I've downloaded, run, haven't changed anything to do with templates, but it's not doing the "up and ready" bit - I still get a template related error when used and I can't work around it?

What's gone wrong? Why isn't it working "out of the box" like the website says it will?

Any help appreciated, this template change has really made it difficult!

My HFS.ini:

Code: [Select]

HFS 2.3d - Build #292
active=yes
only-1-instance=yes
window=*****
window-max=no
easy=no
port=*****
files-box-ratio=0
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log-font-name=Arial
log-font-size=8
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log-time=yes
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log-only-served=no
log-server-start=yes
log-server-stop=yes
log-connections=yes
log-disconnections=yes
log-bytes-sent=no
log-bytes-received=no
log-replies=yes
log-requests=yes
log-uploads=yes
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log-full-downloads=yes
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log-browsing=yes
log-icons=no
log-progress=no
log-banned=yes
log-others=yes
log-file-tabbed=yes
log-apache-format=
tpl-file=
tpl-editor=
delete-dont-ask=no
free-login=yes
confirm-exit=yes
keep-bak-updating=yes
include-pwd-in-pages=no
ip=*****
custom-ip=
listen-on=
external-ip-server=
dynamic-dns-updater=
dynamic-dns-user=
dynamic-dns-host=
search-better-ip=no
start-minimized=no
connections-height=200
files-stay-flagged-for-minutes=*****
auto-save-vfs=yes
folders-before=yes
links-before=yes
use-comment-as-realm=yes
getright-template=yes
auto-save-options=yes
dont-include-port-in-url=no
persistent-connections=yes
modal-options=yes
beep-on-flash=yes
prevent-leeching=no
delete-partial-uploads=no
rename-partial-uploads=yes
enable-macros=no
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minimize-to-tray=yes
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show-main-tray-icon=yes
always-on-top=no
quit-dont-ask=no
support-descript.ion=yes
oem-descript.ion=no
oem-tar=no
enable-fingerprints=yes
save-fingerprints=no
auto-fingerprint=0
encode-pwd-url=yes
stop-spiders=yes
backup-saving=yes
recursive-listing=yes
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browse-localhost=yes
add-folder-default=
default-sorting=
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auto-save-vfs-every=*****
last-update-check=*****
allowed-referer=
forwarded-mask=127.0.0.1
tray-shows=ips
tray-message=*****
speed-limit=-1
speed-limit-ip=-1
max-ips=*****
max-ips-downloading=*****
max-connections=*****
max-connections-by-ip=*****
max-contemporary-dls=*****
max-contemporary-dls-ip=*****
login-realm=
open-in-browser=*.htm;*.html;*.jpg;*.jpeg;*.gif;*.png;*.txt;*.swf;*.svg
flash-on=connection
graph-rate=10
graph-size=40
graph-visible=yes
no-download-timeout=*****
connections-timeout=*****
no-reply-ban=no
ban-list=
add-to-folder=
last-file-open=
reload-on-startup=yes
https-url=no
find-external-on-startup=no
encode-non-ascii=yes
encode-spaces=yes
mime-types=*.js|text/javascript|*.htm;*.html|text/html|*.jpg;*.jpeg;*.jpe|image/jpeg|*.gif|image/gif|*.png|image/png|*.bmp|image/bmp|*.ico|image/x-icon|*.mpeg;*.mpg;*.mpe|video/mpeg|*.avi|video/x-msvideo|*.txt|text/plain|*.css|text/css
in-browser-if-mime=no
icon-masks=
icon-masks-user-images=
address2name=*****
recent-files=
trusted-files=
leave-disconnected-connections=no
accounts=*****
account-notes-wrap=yes
tray-instead-of-quit=yes
compressed-browsing=no
use-iso-date-format=no
hints4newcomers=yes
save-totals=yes
log-toolbar-expanded=no
number-files-on-upload=yes
do-not-log-address=
last-external-address=
min-disk-space=0
out-total=*****
in-total=*****
hits-total=*****
downloads-total=*****
upload-total=*****
many-items-warning=*****
load-single-comment-files=yes
copy-url-on-start=no
connections-columns=*****
auto-comment=no
update-daily=yes
delayed-update=no
tester-updates=no
copy-url-on-addition=yes
ip-services=http://www.melauto.it/public/rejetto/ip.php|;http://rejetto.webfactional.com/hfs/ip.php|;http://checkip.dyndns.org|:;http://www.canyouseeme.org|value=";http://www.alexnolan.net/ip/|address is:;http://www.whatsmyrealip.com/|IP is<br>;http://2ip.ru|d_clip_button">;http://www.mario-online.com/mio_indirizzo_ip.php|<strong>
ip-services-time=*****
update-automatically=no
prevent-standby=no
ips-ever-connected=*****