The same thing is true on Unix platforms as well.
The web server stub processes CFCONTENT for performance reasons.

--
Tom Jordahl
Macromedia Server Development


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 12:25 PM
To: CF-Linux
Subject: RE: Directory permissions for file UL/DL on Linux


> Why would the CF server be able to write to that directory, 
> but not be able to read files from it using CFCONTENT? Is 
> the CFContent tag somehow passing just a file reference to 
> Apache and saying "Here... give 'em this file" rather than 
> loading the file into memory and passing the file *contents* 
> back?

On Windows, at least, the CFCONTENT tag is actually processed by the web
server plugin, and runs within the security context of the web server user
account.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444

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