Obscure <location> Element

This element is not documented in the overall ASP.NET Web.Config schema.

It allows you to change the settings for a given subdirectory. (not sure about 2 levels down, like "data/foo" since "/" seems to be illegal in the path attribute).

Docs on this are here. Found in ".NET Framework SDK \ Configuring Applications \ ASP.NET Configuration \ Hierarchical Configuration Architecture \ Configuration <location> Settings.

<! Configuration for the "Sub1" subdirectory. -->

<location path="sub1">

  <system.web>

     <httpHandlers>

        <add verb="*" path="Sub1.Scott" type="Sub1.Scott"/>

        <add verb="*" path="Sub1.David" type="Sub1.David"/>

     </httpHandlers>

  </system.web>

</location>

Update: Ok, so this only works for aspx files (i.e. can't protect xml data files this way?)
(To protect sub directories 2 levels down, have to use forward slash in the web.config)