Re: Securing XML files

Place them in the App_Data directory.
If you don't have one, create it and modify your path to the files accordingly.

Direct requests for your XML files will be refused if they're in that directory,
although they will still be accessible by your application.




Juan T. Llibre, asp.net MVP
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"Chris" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23j7svb$QHHA.4384@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I want to have a folder with XML files that I don't want to be publically accessible but I want my
application to be able to read. My initial thoughts are to stick the files outside the web tree but
IIS 6 doesn't allow allow parent path with server mappath. I don't want to enable it but I don't
want semi-hardcoded paths either. Does anyone have any suggestions?


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