Password Protect Link Download

[countdrak]

Suppose I display links to a file when somebody logs in and goes to a page.

<a href = "

http://mydomain/client1/1.pdf">Doc

1</a>
<a href = "

http://mydomain/client1/2.pdf">Doc

2</a>


The page is password protected so somebody needs to log in to view the links.

But this does NOT prevent someone from typing

http://mydomain/client1/1.pdf

and downloading the document.

I dont want them to be able to download other clients documents. by just changing the directory structure.

Thanks for the help and ideas.

 

[GUJUm0deL]

Put the files in a secure directory and on the server make that directory secure so a password is needed to access it.

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[countdrak]

I am using cfdirectory to create the directory on the fly. How do I pull that off ?

 

[LyndonOHRC]

I would construct a server script as a .bat file using <cffile> and use <cfexecute> to run that.

Lyndon

---People Remember about 10% of what you say ---They never forget how you made them feel. Covey

 

[imstillatwork]

I would do like GUJU says: Put the files in a folder that web users DO NOT have access to, but CF Server does, and use cfcontent to reach into the protected folder and serve the files. Now you can control with CFML which users get to access which files.



Kevin

http://www.lot-o-nothin.com/cfml/