they are not directly accessible with a url.
HTH
Dick
On Aug 6, 2004, at 10:11 AM, 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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