Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Tue Jun 23 15:22:43 CDT 2009
You can only use BSB and similar applications to grab a website which is built of simple static HTML pages. They just trawl through a site following all the links on all exposed pages starting from the root (index.html ???) and store everything returned by HTTP GET requests. Some go a step further and try to get a listing of every file in each exposed directory, but if there is no direct link on a served up page to any file in a directory, the application won't know that the directory exists. If your site uses PHP, ASP, CGI etc etc and ANY form of database, even a simple text file, BSB will not find it unless there is a specific link to it on a page served up. It won't even identify the use of Server Side Includes. If you use SSI for a standard header/footer on each page, BSB and its ilk will not retrieve the include file, it will store each page as server There are On 23 Jun 2009 at 12:39, Jim Lawrence wrote: > Having a MDB database is exposing all your data as the MDB can just be > copied straight off the website. On the other hand MS SQL can not be stored > at a website as it is one step removed from the web site, protected through > your IIS or Apache server and therefore safer. > > If you do not believe me try out the free OpenSource web base extraction app > called Back-street Browser (http://www.spadixbd.com/backstreet ) just to see > how fast you can backup your website... or anyone's website for that matter. >