(Sorry. This is my third try. I see the first shows up in the archive but it never came in the digest and there have been no responses. The second doesn't seem to have shown up anywhere . . .)
We're running CF 5.0 on Win2K Advanced Server. We have CF pages with links to files on file servers (also Win2K). All of the links are of the type <a href="file://path to file/filename.xxx">Label</a> and everything works just fine. Now access to files on these servers is going to be controlled by username/password. We know about running CF under its own account, but the security people want to use multiple username/password combinations for access to these files. Is there a way in CF to build/process these links so they pass the required username/password combination to the file server when a file is requested? If there is, is there a way to encrypt the request so the username/password are not exposed? (We looked at cfhttp and cfftp but they appear not to fit - the other server is not a web server.) Some of these files are quite large, so we would like the file access to bypass the web server. (Side question - am I correct that file:// requests bring files directly from the file server to the client and not through the CF server to the client?) To accomplish what we are trying to do, is our only solution to have CF running under its own username and then grant permissions to that username to access the files on the file server? Thanks! George [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
