If I understand correctly, you want to force users to go through CF to
get certain site pages.

If so, cfcontent will handle that nicely.

HTH

Dick

On Aug 5, 2004, at 10:24 PM, James Edmunds wrote:

> At a Show-and-Tell session of our Macromedia User Group last night,
>  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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