[Dspace-general] deep links to files in dspace

[Robert Tansley]

Hi Guiseppe,

Actually, as of DSpace 1.4.1, the filename does need to be correct in
these URLs.  This was mainly done to prevent the appearance of
infinite URL spaces which can occur when bitstreams contain relative
links but are not in HTML items (e.g. PDFs).

That said, if there is a reason you do not want your repository
harvested (by search engines etc), I'd recommend you use the
authorization system to restrict access to sensitive material -- if
someone has access to your browse pages, they can crawl them to get to
item pages and from there to all of the bitstreams anyway.

Rob

On 25/01/07, Giuseppe Vacanti <gvacanti at cosine.nl> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a dspace installation for internal use. I have defined my local handle
> name, so that I can get direct access (say from another web site) to my
> documents with a deep link like this:
>
> ...dspace/bitstream/cosine/140/1/document.pdf
>
> I have noticed that it does not matter what file name I use at the end of the
> URL, I will always get my document back. That is to say, all of these URLs work:
>
> ...dspace/bitstream/cosine/140/1/
> ...dspace/bitstream/cosine/140/1/bliblo
> ...dspace/bitstream/cosine/140/1/etc
>
> I would like to know if there is any way to disable this behavior, so that only
> if the file name is correct will the system return a document. Otherwise it
> becomes too simple for people to harvest the whole archive, by just trying all
> the integers, like:
>
> ...dspace/bitstream/cosine/0/1/
> ...dspace/bitstream/cosine/1/1/
> ...dspace/bitstream/cosine/2/1/
> etc etc
>
> and this is something I do not want.
>
> Regards, Giuseppe
> --
> Giuseppe Vacanti
> cosine Science & Computing (+31-71-5241096)
> http://people.cosine.nl/gvacanti - PGP key: 0x7650713E
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