php chmod?

say i have a php script that i access via the web and that creates a
file whose permissions are changed to 600 (ie. only the owner can read
or write the file). when i try to download the file with the
webbrowser... i can. what i want is to not be able to download the
file, itself. i only want the php script i wrote to download the
file... how could i do this? is it simply a matter of changing the
permissions?

anyways, here's my code:

<?
system("ls -l > test.txt");
chmod("test.txt", 0600);
?>

yawnmoth <terra1024@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:2sfqnv4k654p4a3g58oab980iqttbi3af1@4ax.com:

> say i have a php script that i access via the web and that creates a
> file whose permissions are changed to 600 (ie. only the owner can read
> or write the file). when i try to download the file with the
> webbrowser... i can. what i want is to not be able to download the
> file, itself. i only want the php script i wrote to download the
> file... how could i do this? is it simply a matter of changing the
> permissions?

To answer to this is simple: PHP is being run by the same user as the
webserver.

KAH

Hi,
yawnmoth wrote:

> say i have a php script that i access via the web and that creates a
> file whose permissions are changed to 600 (ie. only the owner can read
> or write the file). when i try to download the file with the
> webbrowser... i can. what i want is to not be able to download the
> file, itself. i only want the php script i wrote to download the
> file... how could i do this? is it simply a matter of changing the
> permissions?
Nop, here we need to do some tricky stuff.
You can place the file on a other location like /home/foo (the
permissions must be so that php can read an write here.
You webserver looks in the /var/www/htdocs (or something like thist) or
maybe in /home/foo/public_html. So you can have php read an write the
file, but you can not make an URL that point to that file.
>
> anyways, here's my code:
>
> <?
> system("ls -l > test.txt");
> chmod("test.txt", 0600);
> ?>
So long Alexander