What I did was created a CRUD editor and gave every downloadable file an ID in a database table. So, when the end user clicks the link with the file description, they are using an ID instead of the file name and specific directory. The link then opens up a licensing agreement page within a pop-up. Then when the user agrees to the licensing agreement it closes the window and posts the id back to a hidden iframe in the original window. I then have ColdFusion to update a license tracking table and then in the hidden iframe it cflocates to the file except for when it is a non-standard files like .hex and .e14. -Aaron
-----Original Message----- From: George Abraham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 2:50 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: alternatives to cfcontent to allow large downloads Hi all, CFMX 7 Enterprise on IIS and Win 2003. Relatively medium traffic website, probably about 200 or so downloads a day, ranging from 1MB to 1GB or so. This is expected to double every 3 months or so. I read that cfcontent utilizes a single thread for the duration of a file download. I also read Ben Nadel's post here: http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:1226.view on sidestepping some of that. There was a bit of discussion about using x-sendfile with lighthttpd and Apache, but I don't have that option since I am condemned to IIS. The question is: are there any other alternatives? I could initialize another instance and make it handle only the download requests, but can't really guess at the long-term viability of that. Thanks, George ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307116 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
