remember that using cfcontent to deliver files puts load onto coldfusio, as
every file has to be loaded into memory and served up, if you have a lot of
files to serve then this could easily overload CF.
Serving the file directly from an authenticated folder will not involve cf
at all and will be
Hi Folks
I am creating an online library (mainly pdfs with some MSWord) on windows
based server administered primarily with Plesk.
Subscribers have to log in using unique passwords stored in a data base.
What is the simplest way to protect the library directories. I can't figure out
how
to
use ,htaccess is the easiest way, you can pickup the login via CF (dump out
the headers) and then do your own additional authentication to determine
access levels etc.
if you use CF alone to handle logins then this only secures cfm files and
not other file types which are in your web accessible
Sounds like you could have the files in a non public directory like c:/docs
Once users are autheticated, you might just have a link to
getpdf.cfm?filename=myfile.pdf.
The getpdf.cfm would just have a cfcontent tag which reads the pdf from the
private c:/docs directory and sets the proper mime
Hi.
I have set up a scheduled task from CF server (CF 4.0 on Windows NT), but
I've been having a problem when the scheduled page is in password protected
directory. Once I schedule to run a page from that directory, it won't run.
The directory is protected using NT's basic authentication.
Does
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