Security Filter: Controlled Access to Web Pages
Security Filter
Version TC-02
01 March 1998
The Security Filter has two types of users:
Web developers are alerted by the Security Filter when the information they provide either in the starting HTML file or in the configuration files (see the Security Filter documentation) is wrong.
Up to this version the error messages presented to the Web developers were embedded in the Security Filter executable and it was not possible to modify them.
This version allows to create/modify the error messages presented to the Web developers.
In this version of the Security Filter error messages are stored into a file called "secfil.err".
Error messages are identified in this file by tags. When an error occurs, the Security Filter looks in the error messages file for a particular tag (e.g. <OUTSIDE-FORM>) and prints out all the text found in between that tag and its corresponding closing tag (e.g. </OUTSIDE-FORM>).
The text that can be inserted in between tags is normal HTML text.
Hereafter the various tags and the related error situations are listed.
The Error Messages File default location is embedded in the Security Filter executable and corresponds to the directory where the executable resides.
It is possible anyhow to modify this default location by using the utility "inspath".
To achieve that it is necessary execute the following procedure:
cp secfil secfil.bck
cp secfil secfil.tmp
inspath: enter Target File => secfil.tmp
inspath: enter the Location (directory)
for the Errors file => /my_location
inspath: Target File = "secfil.tmp".
Errors File Location = "/my_location".
Inspath: is the above information correct [y/n]? y
rm secfil
mv secfil.tmp secfil
In case it is needed to go back to the default location you can either use the backed up copy or execute again the above procedure using "." (dot) as new location.