Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Managing Document Download
Either way. But serving it up with a cfcontent instead of as an attachment would provide a degree of protection against redistribution (in theory) by an uninspired user. But if someone really wanted to get it, they will get it. - Original Message From: Dean H. Saxe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: discussion@acfug.org Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2007 3:49:04 PM Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Managing Document Download You can do that with most PDF writers too, like PrimoPDF. No need then to reprocess it every time. -dhs Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." -- George Orwell, 1945 On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:38 PM, shawn gorrell wrote: I think with the new CFPDF stuff that you can set the PDF to not allow saving or copying (among other things). If you did a cfcontent to the browser, rather than attaching to an email, and set it to not allow save or copy it would seem to provide a measure of protection that would thwart a casual user. - Original Message From: Dean H. Saxe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: discussion@acfug.org Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2007 3:33:43 PM Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Managing Document Download Your plan is good. But people can still email around the PDF, making the tracking of it difficult.-dhs Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free." -- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918 On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Clarke Bishop wrote: I am doing the "free gift" marketing thing. You know, register for the newsletter, and we'll send you a free white paper. I was just attaching the white paper PDF to the e-mail, but I'm concerned that is not the best practice. Spam filters might strip off the attachment. So, maybe it would be better to put a link in the e-mail that let's them download the file. But, I don't want the link passed around, so I need to make sure they can only download it one time. What's the best way to accomplish something like this? I thought about adding a URL parameter to the download link, and then keeping track to see if the file had already been downloaded. I think I should also use to serve up the file, and I can then put the file in a directory that is not web accessible. Is this a good plan? Anything I am missing? Oh yea, I'm on a shared host running CF7. I'll upgrade to CF8 soon, but I need to make this work using CF7. Thanks for listening! Clarke - Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink - - Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink - - Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -
Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Managing Document Download
You can do that with most PDF writers too, like PrimoPDF. No need then to reprocess it every time. -dhs Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." -- George Orwell, 1945 On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:38 PM, shawn gorrell wrote: I think with the new CFPDF stuff that you can set the PDF to not allow saving or copying (among other things). If you did a cfcontent to the browser, rather than attaching to an email, and set it to not allow save or copy it would seem to provide a measure of protection that would thwart a casual user. - Original Message From: Dean H. Saxe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: discussion@acfug.org Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2007 3:33:43 PM Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Managing Document Download Your plan is good. But people can still email around the PDF, making the tracking of it difficult. -dhs Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free." -- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918 On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Clarke Bishop wrote: I am doing the "free gift" marketing thing. You know, register for the newsletter, and we'll send you a free white paper. I was just attaching the white paper PDF to the e-mail, but I'm concerned that is not the best practice. Spam filters might strip off the attachment. So, maybe it would be better to put a link in the e-mail that let's them download the file. But, I don't want the link passed around, so I need to make sure they can only download it one time. What's the best way to accomplish something like this? I thought about adding a URL parameter to the download link, and then keeping track to see if the file had already been downloaded. I think I should also use to serve up the file, and I can then put the file in a directory that is not web accessible. Is this a good plan? Anything I am missing? Oh yea, I'm on a shared host running CF7. I'll upgrade to CF8 soon, but I need to make this work using CF7. Thanks for listening! Clarke - Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink - - Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink -
Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Managing Document Download
I think with the new CFPDF stuff that you can set the PDF to not allow saving or copying (among other things). If you did a cfcontent to the browser, rather than attaching to an email, and set it to not allow save or copy it would seem to provide a measure of protection that would thwart a casual user. - Original Message From: Dean H. Saxe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: discussion@acfug.org Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2007 3:33:43 PM Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Managing Document Download Your plan is good. But people can still email around the PDF, making the tracking of it difficult.-dhs Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free." -- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918 On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Clarke Bishop wrote: I am doing the "free gift" marketing thing. You know, register for the newsletter, and we'll send you a free white paper. I was just attaching the white paper PDF to the e-mail, but I'm concerned that is not the best practice. Spam filters might strip off the attachment. So, maybe it would be better to put a link in the e-mail that let's them download the file. But, I don't want the link passed around, so I need to make sure they can only download it one time. What's the best way to accomplish something like this? I thought about adding a URL parameter to the download link, and then keeping track to see if the file had already been downloaded. I think I should also use to serve up the file, and I can then put the file in a directory that is not web accessible. Is this a good plan? Anything I am missing? Oh yea, I'm on a shared host running CF7. I'll upgrade to CF8 soon, but I need to make this work using CF7. Thanks for listening! Clarke - Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink - - Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -
Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Managing Document Download
Your plan is good. But people can still email around the PDF, making the tracking of it difficult. -dhs Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free." -- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918 On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Clarke Bishop wrote: I am doing the "free gift" marketing thing. You know, register for the newsletter, and we'll send you a free white paper. I was just attaching the white paper PDF to the e-mail, but I'm concerned that is not the best practice. Spam filters might strip off the attachment. So, maybe it would be better to put a link in the e-mail that let's them download the file. But, I don't want the link passed around, so I need to make sure they can only download it one time. What's the best way to accomplish something like this? I thought about adding a URL parameter to the download link, and then keeping track to see if the file had already been downloaded. I think I should also use to serve up the file, and I can then put the file in a directory that is not web accessible. Is this a good plan? Anything I am missing? Oh yea, I'm on a shared host running CF7. I'll upgrade to CF8 soon, but I need to make this work using CF7. Thanks for listening! Clarke - Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink -
Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Managing Document Download
additional thought... since you are probably sending this based on some sort of email list why dont you use that as the url parameter. On 8/7/07, Steven Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cfcontent the file and serve it based on some sort of url code, and > code it based on each email so you can track who is actually > downloading it. The only way to block it from being forwarded would be > to only allow 1 download but, not sure if you want to do that. > > On 8/7/07, Clarke Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I am doing the "free gift" marketing thing. You know, register for the > > newsletter, and we'll send you a free white paper. > > > > I was just attaching the white paper PDF to the e-mail, but I'm concerned > > that is not the best practice. Spam filters might strip off the attachment. > > > > So, maybe it would be better to put a link in the e-mail that let's them > > download the file. But, I don't want the link passed around, so I need to > > make sure they can only download it one time. > > > > What's the best way to accomplish something like this? > > > > I thought about adding a URL parameter to the download link, and then > > keeping track to see if the file had already been downloaded. I think I > > should also use to serve up the file, and I can then put the > > file in a directory that is not web accessible. > > > > Is this a good plan? Anything I am missing? > > > > Oh yea, I'm on a shared host running CF7. I'll upgrade to CF8 soon, but I > > need to make this work using CF7. > > > > Thanks for listening! > > > >Clarke > > - > > Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > > Archive @ > > http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > > List hosted by FusionLink > > - > > > -- > Steven Ross > web application & interface developer > http://www.zerium.com > [mobile] 404-488-4364 > [fax] 267-482-4364 > -- Steven Ross web application & interface developer http://www.zerium.com [mobile] 404-488-4364 [fax] 267-482-4364 - Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -
Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Managing Document Download
cfcontent the file and serve it based on some sort of url code, and code it based on each email so you can track who is actually downloading it. The only way to block it from being forwarded would be to only allow 1 download but, not sure if you want to do that. On 8/7/07, Clarke Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am doing the "free gift" marketing thing. You know, register for the > newsletter, and we'll send you a free white paper. > > I was just attaching the white paper PDF to the e-mail, but I'm concerned > that is not the best practice. Spam filters might strip off the attachment. > > So, maybe it would be better to put a link in the e-mail that let's them > download the file. But, I don't want the link passed around, so I need to > make sure they can only download it one time. > > What's the best way to accomplish something like this? > > I thought about adding a URL parameter to the download link, and then > keeping track to see if the file had already been downloaded. I think I > should also use to serve up the file, and I can then put the > file in a directory that is not web accessible. > > Is this a good plan? Anything I am missing? > > Oh yea, I'm on a shared host running CF7. I'll upgrade to CF8 soon, but I > need to make this work using CF7. > > Thanks for listening! > >Clarke > - > Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software > > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > Archive @ > http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > List hosted by FusionLink > - -- Steven Ross web application & interface developer http://www.zerium.com [mobile] 404-488-4364 [fax] 267-482-4364 - Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -
