st: Restricting access to some files using "net from ..."

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

I was wondering if there was anyway to restrict access to certain files on 
our website that will be accessible via Stata's "net from http"// ..."

We want to put up ado and do files that can be accessed by a group of 
research fellows, but not the general public (as well as, separately, other 
files for the general public). The reason we want to restrict access to 
some files is that the files do not have general use, being dependent on 
specific variables and existing files; and because they provide 
descriptions of research activities and plans that should not be public.

I can see that we might send an encrypted zip file, but then we lose the 
useful automatic save to the c:\ado directory. Does anyone have insight 
into how we might protect ado/do files within the net from http:// system?


Thanks,

Fred





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