>> I'm assuming from this question that when you installed OpenBD initially
you used Jordan's installer?

 

That is correct.  When I configured the server I was looking for something
quick and inexpensive that was a CF solution.  The web server on this box
right now is just an interface to the file archive we currently serve via
ftp.  The main website on our network makes HTTP calls to this external
server to see if the file is there (via CF) and if the user (by IP) is
already downloading before allowing then to download.  There is not much CF
processing going on since its main purpose is to serve files via ftp.  We
had a CF5 install originally but when we upgraded to win2008 from 2003 we
needed something else.  This was all done to control bandwidth usage,
however that is not an issue now so I would prefer to serve the files via
HTTP to eliminate the issue of clients firewall/internet security
restrictions and the one file at a time thing the kids complain so much
about.  

 

I had hoped that an ISAPI module could be developed to mimic the Mod_Xsend
apache module but apparently the company developing it says that it will not
work with CF.  I am guessing because of the existing ISAPI connector.  We
want to prevent direct linking and I don't want CF to be processing the
files since we serve over 15,000GB a month in traffic.  Apache is reputed to
be the best at serving that kind of traffic especially with Mod_Xsend.

 

Dennis Powers

UXB Internet - A Website Design & Hosting Company

P.O. Box 6028

Wolcott, CT 06716

203-879-2844

http://www.uxbinternet.com

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