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Foil 21 Password Protection on HTML Documents

From CGI Programming with Advanced Topics Jackson State University Mississippi -- Fall Semester 97. by Nancy McCracken *
Many servers, including NCSA, use an Access Control File (ACF) to configure basic authorization for access to all web documents in a directory.
The global ACF is named access.conf in the server's configuration directory.
Any directory in the server's document space can have a local ACF named .htaccess. Here is the format of an NCSA ACF:

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