>
> But what if you did the following:
>
> 1) secured all files under a folder called /whatever
> 2) protected the folder using iis except for a custom windows
> restricted user account, let's say, called "cfsessionuser"
> which has no rights but to read those files....
> 3) use CFAUTHENTICATE with the username and password for this
> account, once a user's session is created, setting the
> timeout for the authenticate to the timeout length of the
> app's sessions. (and renew it via cfauthenticate whenever
> cfml pages are accessed, since that renews teh session).
>
> Would that work? I'm not a windows guru so I have no idea how
> to utilize cfauthenticate to auth against nt/2k servers for
> something like this....
The CFAUTHENTICATE tag no longer exists in CFMX. Even if it did, that
wouldn't help the end user authenticate from within the browser. The
CFAUTHENTICATE tag was useful for running server-side code as another user.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: 202-797-5496
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