Right. I'm planning on some system setups to make sure that people can't link directly to the file. How would this work though with alternate file types? For example, all but 3 or 4 of my newsletters are PDF. The other 3 or 4 are plain Coldfusion pages.
<!----------------//------ andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --------------//---------> -----Original Message----- From: Tom King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 10:32 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Password access for PDF files Add an Isapi rewrite to redirect all .pdfs to a page like library.cfm? file=filename.ext Then you can log the filename and any other info in a database, and then serve the file via CFHEADER.? T On 6 Sep 2006, at 16:26, Andy Matthews wrote: > I'm working on a simple access for PDF files and HTML page on my > client's > website. There's nothing sensitive about them, they just want to start > collecting user info. So my thought is to have an intermediate page > which > checks to see if the user is logged in; stores info about the > "view" in the > database; then redirects the user to the page/file. Problem is that > I just > tried it and it tried to view it in the browser, not just the PDF > but the > underlying source code. > > So I'm wondering what might be the best way to do this. My > requirements are: > > 1) User must log in to view anything inside the "library". At this > point the > various files and pages are in various directories, but if needed I > could > consolidate them all into a "library" directory. > > 2) Store information about the "view" in the database. > > 3) Redirect user to the appropriate file. > > > Thoughts? > > <!----------------//------ > andy matthews > web developer > certified advanced coldfusion programmer > ICGLink, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 615.370.1530 x737 > --------------//---------> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:252219 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
