-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Another option would be to store (in your DB) an email, password, and download count. Then you can allow that customer to download the file a reasonable amount of times before the password stops working. You could also add a date retriction to allow them to download it x times in y days. Best regards, Zac Bedell > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Langevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 2:02 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Software downloads on a client site w/ "vanishing > URLs" > > > THat's my thinking, as well. I'd just like to restrict the access > to someone who's paid. I may just set it up with an > email/randomly generated > password pair, and store the combo in a table of paid > customers. Need to > think about this a bit more. > > <CFUG-SFL Manager> > -Kev > </CFUG-SFL Manager> > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Warrick, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 1:45 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: Software downloads on a client site w/ "vanishing > > URLs" > > > > > > Are you also concerned that a user might give away their username > > and password if you were to put that file somewhere protected? > > > > If not, then you could put the downloadables below the web root, > > call them with CFCONTENT, and only allow access to files from > > customer's who paid for that particular software. > > > > If you ARE worried about people passing out username/password > > combos, then you can restrict the time limit for downloading to > > like a day or something like that. But regardless of what you > > do, if someone really wants to share that program they're going > > to do it no matter what you try to do to prevent it. > > > > ---mark > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Mark Warrick > > Phone: (714) 547-5386 > > Efax.com Fax: (801) 730-7289 > > Personal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Personal URL: http://www.warrick.net > > Business Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Business URL: http://www.fusioneers.com > > ICQ: 346566 > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Kevin Langevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 6:50 AM > > > To: CF-Talk > > > Subject: Software downloads on a client site w/ "vanishing > > > URLs" > > > > > > > > > I sent this out yesterday, but I replied to some other message, > > and didn't > > > change the subject, so I'm reposting under a unique > subject in case that > > > thread had been dying out. > > > > > > I need to enable software downloads on a client site, for > customers who > > > purchase access to them. I'm wondering if anyone has built > > functionality > > > into a shopping cart to allow this using "vanishing URL" > > > methods? > > > I'm using > > > Mary Jo's CFWebStore (which rocks, by the way...) but > that's one feature > > > that I need which isn't built in. > > > > > > <CFUG-SFL Manager> > > > -Kev > > > </CFUG-SFL Manager> > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Robert Forsyth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 5:40 PM > > > > To: CF-Talk > > > > Subject: Help with Anchor Tag > > > > > > > > > > > > I have a query that spits out the last 10 feedbacks on a > > > > particular news story.... > > > > > > > > when they click on the summary, I open a new window to show > > > > all feedback and set the page position from the calling link > > > > on the parent's page. Of course, it does not work... here's > the snippet > > > > from the calling page: > > > > > > > > <cfoutput query="getreviews"> > > > > <a > > > > > href="javascript:pop_window('feedback.cfm?a=2&i=#news.idnum#&h=#tr > > > > > im(news.headline)#&##035;#messageid#')">#trim(summary)#</font></a><p > > > > > > </cfoutput> > > > > > > > > which results in a url that is: > > > > > > > > <a href="feedback.cfm?a=2&i=2555&h=Gallaudet Students Fear > > > > For Safetyצ"> > > > > > > > > '1510' is the record messageid > > > > > > > > on the feedback.cfm page... I query all the the > feedback for this > > > > story and add a <a name> anchor in the output: > > > > > > > > <a name ="###messageid#"> > > > > > > > > > > > > But when the feedback.cfm loads, it does not jump to the > > > > anchor location. Viewing the source shows that everything > looks ok. Is > > > > it possible to have a anchor-jump inside a dynamic url?? > > > > > > > > thanks for the help! > > > > > > > > Robert Forsyth > > > > Director of Web Operations > > > > Irides, LLC > > > > Phone: 202-364-7831 > > > > Fax: 202-364-2481 > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ------------ > > > > Archives: > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To > > > > Unsubscribe visit > > > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=sts&body=sts/cf_t > > > al > > k or send > > a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > 'unsubscribe' in the > > body. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------ > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ > > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=list s/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------ - -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=sts&body=sts/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_tal k or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBOeYGFAraVoMWBwRBEQLW1wCg36OqKeOBzTsRtQhW3q1nq/Vfh0sAoNjT a/WycpImD359slk1jnydqSQI =5HgB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
