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The workaround proposed by Lafcadio is not at all secure ! In other words, the only thing "my" workaround does is prevent people from viewing the directory structure of your server. It will not prevent people, who already know the location of media files, from playing them. In order to ac...

I'm running Linux, so full path names start with a `/`. In my environment, for example, the full path to `browse.xml` is `/usr/share/vlc/http/requests/browse.xml`. If you're on a Mac, your full path would also start with a `/`, I believe. For Windows, I'm not sure what the answer is (maybe something...

Thank you for the suggestion. Here is my current workaround hack. It is definitely not ideal, but will suffice for now. I added a predicate to the `browse.xml` file to check if the current directory starts with '/library/ ' (the directory I want to make the root). <vlc id="if" param1="...

I'm actually using a 3rd party application (an Android application called "VLC Stream and Convert") . I point to the html web interface as an example. Are 3rd party applications interacting with the same files as a web-browser user would? I'm not familiar with how a 3rd party application i...

Great! What's the command-line flag, or configuration setting, please? I've been looking for this for days! Actually, I think I may know what you're referring to. The parameter [--http-src] sets the document root for the web interface (i.e., the HTML, xml, etc... for the http interface) it does not ...

When I add the http interface, the browse functionality allows users to explore my entire system directory structure. I'd like to restrict this behavior to a certain directory subtree.

For example, how can I make the top-level folder `/media/`?