Hi, The problem with cfcontent is that it uses one CF thread per download... So if you have several users downloading large files from you server at the same time, your server will be quickly down (all the CF threads will be taken one by one by the downloads).
Most of big download sites use another technique, it seems that they check the authentication through a dynamic page and return a download info page, the download is then fired by a javascript on the client side (so the download is handled by the web server, not the application server). But I still wonder how they handle the security access from the javascript call... Benoit Hediard www.benorama.com -----Message d'origine----- De : JLH All Turbo [mailto:jacob@;allturbo.com] Envoyé : mardi 29 octobre 2002 16:06 À : CF-Talk Objet : Re: Protecting NON-CF Files with CF I was trying that with cfcontent and it's just destroying the server. coolfusion.com had a solution for me, they had an iauth tag that would take a yes or no from cf and pass a generic l/p to windows if yes and would just shut down if no. but it stopped working. so i'm looking for other solutions. j ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffry Houser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:00 AM Subject: Re: Protecting NON-CF Files with CF > Look into cfcontent. > In short, basically, hide the files in a non-web accessible directory and > then use cfcontent in a CF page to deliver the file to the user. > > At 09:53 AM 10/29/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >We have to protect an entire directory and it's subdirectories with CF. > >We'd like to use CF to process our logins.. but can't have people directly > >linking to JPGs and MPGs etc under neath.. since CF can't really protect > >these individual files unless called through a CFM page, we've run into a > >problem. > > > >How can we accomplish this? We DO own a copy of AuthentiX and unfortunately > >CFContent is not a viable solution. This site will have upwards of 12,000 > >simultaneous users and CFContent has too much overheard. > > > >Thank you! > > > >JLH > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
