Perhaps not. This password program you refer to, is it some special code
or are you using the BASIC AUTHENTICATION that is part of the web server???
It you are using simple then the username / password are "simple encrypted"
and available to your CFM code.
You could also then map the PDF extension to the CFM engine, and have
application.cfm that would intercept all calls to the PDFS, then
deliver them via a CFCONTENT tag as appropriate.
Steve
At 12:11 PM 5/9/2000 -0400, Kelly Matthews wrote:
>well it looks like we are SOL then. We have over 4000 pdf files linked ALL
>OVER our site
>and I surely am not going to go back and relink everything. We have it
>password protected
>now but we wanted to make it personalized so when they logged in it could
>welcome them
>etc but using the password program we are currently using there is no way
>for cold fusion
>to GRAB the user id and password that they log in with. oh well guess i
>need to think of something
>else.
>Kelly
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Mitter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 11:30 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: cooooookies
>>
>> ...but only if the file you are trying to access in that directory is a
>> coldfusion page (.cfm) or a file that has been mapped to the coldfusion
>> engine. If you try and access the pdf files directly the application.cfm
>> WON'T be executed.
>> The only ways you can protect these files is either by having the pdf
>> files outside of the web path and using cfcontent to send the pdf files
>> when
>> requested or to use IIS security to protect that directory (if you're
>> using
>> IIS of course...) or the equivelent for your web server.
>> HTH
>> Brian
>>
>> > Make sure your section which you wish to password
>> > is in a directory by itself and use a CFAPPLICATION
>> > tag in there. If not authenticated for that section then
>> > sends them to the login page.
>> >
>> > By default Cold Fusion will execute the first cfapplication
>> > tag it find starting in the local directory then working its way
>> > up to the main directory.
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Kelly Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 10:27 AM
>> > Subject: cooooookies
>> >
>> >
>> > > Ok I have a question. I wanted to password protect a section of our
>> > website
>> > > using cookies with
>> > > Cold Fusion. It works fine except for this. If someone links to a PDF
>> > file
>> > > (instead of an .htm file) it
>> > > doesnt even seem to read or care about the application.cfm file
>> therefore
>> > > never throws them
>> > > to the login page. Is this normal? Is there a way around it? Basically
>> we
>> > > have a huge members
>> > > section (behind a certain directory) that has a combination of both
>> PDF
>> > and
>> > > HTM files but I want
>> > > them to have to log in no matter what they try to link to.
>> Suggestions??
>> > > Kelly
>> >
>> >
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