That won't work Lee because application.cfm only gets fired when a CFM is called unless I'm reading your post wrong.=20
John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer =20 -----Original Message----- From: Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 4:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: cold fusion, pdf files and security In the folder where the PDF's are stored create an application.cfm file. In that file do a cfif and check for the existance of a cookie with a meta redirect (To form page described below) if it doesn't exist. Within the PDF folder create another folder called something like security. Within that folder create another application.cfm with nothing but a comment in it. Also create a form and and a form action page in the security folder. On the form ask for a name and or password. On the action page either query a database for validation or hardcode the name and password to check against what the user entered. If they enter the correct stuff, set the cookie with a time limit and redirect to an index page in the PDF folder. If they enter the wrong stuff redirect them back to the sign in. Hope that makes sense. Lee On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:00:43 -0500 "Wurst, Keith D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone. I have a cf security question. I have a website and on=20 >that site are some pdfs. The site is password protected. On the site I >have a pdf directory where I keep all my pdf's. I am concerned that if >I emailed someone a link http://www.mysite.com/pdf/pdfname.pdf that=20 >they would be able to open the pdf without having to log into the site >first. > Is there a way to force users to have to login before they can open a >..pdf - and still email them a link in the format I have written above? > Thanks so much for the help. >=20 >=20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:199612 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
