Apache Limit Directive

If you use .htaccess files for your authentication or for that matter if you use apache for your user authentication (to password protect directories), you will be using the <Limit> directive. I always used the GET access restriction (<Limit GET>) but as I have found through the development of my firefox blogging tool, that this allows non-authenticated users to POST to a script in the password protected directory…. Not very clever really. What you have to do is use <Limit GET POST> and you will be prompted for both GET and POST requests. You can read more about the <Limit> directive in the apache docs. That's enough learning for me today….feet up.