one of the members showed a site he was working on that would gather a
large amount of information about the craft of blacksmithing,
categorized in various ways, with the content ultimately being served
out in the form of a URL that will show in the bottom pane of a
frameset....cfm, htm, PDF, jpg, gif, whatever.
One topic that was discussed was whether ColdFusion had a feature that
would help with this issue: since all of the content ultimately can be
accessed through loading a URL, how could he protect it? It was
suggested that if the application.cfm file could contain the username
and password for an IIS or Apache protected folder where all the
content material is stored in sub-folders, then the material would be
loaded normally into the browser when called through his pages, but
the content material would not load when the URL of a specific piece
of content was pointed too without going through .cfm and therefore
the application.cfm template.
The question that none of us had the answer to was, can this be done
in ColdFusion? Can you pass the username and password that protects a
sub-directory out to Apache or IIS, so that material in that
sub-directory is loaded if called through CF but won't load with just
the address in the browser? Thanks in advance for any ideas!
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