Understood. Thanks
On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 11:46:39 -0400, Jerry Johnson wrote: > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/04/02 10:43AM >>> > On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 10:38:20 -0400, Jerry Johnson wrote: > <SNIP> > >> I would suggest, however, that you do not store the images in a single directory. >Come up with a good file nameing convention, >>including directory structures. Maybe something > >>like YYYY/MM/DD/YYYYMMDD00000.tif > > >This naming convention would occur before the FTP to the server. Just change the >remote filename during the FTP? > >Can the creation of these directories happen automatically? > > Yes. And creating the directory should happen automatically. But my suggested >fileame was just a SWAG. The file names should mean something to you, but they should be unique throught the entire system. So that if you ever found a file laying around, you could know exactly where it goes. And you would never need to worry about overwriting files. > > >> I would also keep a copy of the original tif file, as well as the edited version >made available. But store it offline, or reachable only by a >>CF call, rather than >in the wwwroot tree. Same goes for all the image, I guess. Just so no one can go directly to an invoice by knowing >>your naming convention. Us a cf program and cfcontent to return the images, rather than direct links to the files. > > >Whats the purpose of this? > > If you had an invoice file stored at /images/invoice/A020062.tif (the filename being >a random account number, for example.). > > If I knew that that was your naming convention, I could try to load the following >files. > > /images/invoice/A020063.tif > /images/invoice/A020064.tif > /images/invoice/A020065.tif > /images/invoice/A010064.tif > /images/invoice/B020064.tif > > Now I've got your entire account history. A list of all your clients. What they >bought. For how much. And probably their phone numbers and contact info. And maybe I could see that client Y was getting his products for 20 percent less than you are selling it to me! > > Yikes! > > So what I would do is have all the images linked to > /images_invoice.cfm?invoice=B020064 > /images_invoice.cfm?invoice=B020065 > > I'd store the images on another drive (like drive F:), and have the >images_invoice.cfm return the correct image from that other drive. > > Does any of this make sense? > > Jerry Johnson > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
