it as needed using cfcontent from there? Nobody can access it via URL, right?
Ray
At 01:11 PM 8/6/2004, James Edmunds wrote:
>Actually, the issue is that he doesn't want anyone to be able to have
>access to the material that is sitting in directory that he would like
>to have password protected.
>
>Will CFCONTENT load a file that is in a password-protected directory
>or folder? Or does it have a way of passing the needed username and
>password?
>
>In other words, if the URL for, say, a certain bit of content is, say:
>/domain.com/content/group1/content.pdf or even
>/domain.com/content/group1/photo10.jpg, he doesn't want that to be
>viewable by anyone using just that URL (who has at that point not gone
>through CF). He himself wants to be able to call pass the URL and
>call it and load it into the bottom pane of a frameset, where it will
>display whether PDF, JPG, HTM, CFM, etc.
>
>So, he wants things blocked to anyone who doesn't visit through his
>pages. If CFCONTENT can either pass the username and password or
>somehow otherwise subvert them, it will work; otherwise, I'm not sure
>that it will help.
>
>Thanks for your thoughts!
>
>-James Edmunds
>New Iberia, LA
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Dick Applebaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 08:19:46 -0700
>Subject: Re: Passing info to IIS or Apache
>To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>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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