Tuesday, September 3, 2002, 2:54:24 PM, you wrote: EG> We have CF pages with links to files on file servers (also Win2K). All of EG> the links are of the type <a href="file://path to file/filename.xxx">>Label</a> and everything works just fine. Now access to EG> files on these servers is going to be controlled by username/password.
EG> We know about running CF under its own account, but the security people want EG> to use multiple username/password combinations for access to these files. EG> Is there a way in CF to build/process these links so they pass the required EG> username/password combination to the file server when a file is requested? EG> If there is, is there a way to encrypt the request so the username/password EG> are not exposed? (We looked at cfhttp and cfftp but they appear not to fit - EG> the other server is not a web server.) EG> Some of these files are quite large, so we would like the file access to EG> bypass the web server. (Side question - am I correct that file:// requests EG> bring files directly from the file server to the client and not through the EG> CF server to the client?) This is client side stuff. file:// isn't going to work in a browser unless the client (I'm assuming IE) has access to the resource. If your users are not going to have these passwords, then you are going to have to have CF authenticate itself, then send the file to the browser. EG> To accomplish what we are trying to do, is our only solution to have CF EG> running under its own username and then grant permissions to that username EG> to access the files on the file server? Thanks! This is probably the easiest way, but you still need to send the file to the browser. You could map the file servers to drives on the CF server, and then use cfcontent to send the file. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. 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
