Kevin, Why not have the web site make some random folders like:
http://www.yoursite.com/software/sd332wcdf/er23232/mystuff.zip
then copy the sofware to the folder, then you could direct the customer to
click on a link to download the software immediatedly, after the download
completes remove the folders and their contents. You could also email this
link to them.
If they need to redownload for whatever reason make them put in a CC Number
or Social Security Number, people do not give these out...of course you
would need an SSL.
So anytime anyone needs to download the software to the site, you dont have
to put a link to the actual file, but just <cfinclude
template="downloadfile.cfm"> which generates directories, copies the file,
sends it to the client browser, and then deletes it.
jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Langevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 2:01 PM
Subject: RE: Software downloads on a client site w/ "vanishing URLs"
> THat's my thinking, as well. I'd just like to restrict the access to
> someone who's paid. I may just set it up with an email/randomly generated
> password pair, and store the combo in a table of paid customers. Need to
> think about this a bit more.
>
> <CFUG-SFL Manager>
> -Kev
> </CFUG-SFL Manager>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Warrick, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 1:45 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: Software downloads on a client site w/ "vanishing URLs"
> >
> >
> > Are you also concerned that a user might give away their username
> > and password if you were to put that file somewhere protected?
> >
> > If not, then you could put the downloadables below the web root,
> > call them with CFCONTENT, and only allow access to files from
> > customer's who paid for that particular software.
> >
> > If you ARE worried about people passing out username/password
> > combos, then you can restrict the time limit for downloading to
> > like a day or something like that. But regardless of what you
> > do, if someone really wants to share that program they're going
> > to do it no matter what you try to do to prevent it.
> >
> > ---mark
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > Mark Warrick
> > Phone: (714) 547-5386
> > Efax.com Fax: (801) 730-7289
> > Personal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Personal URL: http://www.warrick.net
> > Business Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Business URL: http://www.fusioneers.com
> > ICQ: 346566
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Kevin Langevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 6:50 AM
> > > To: CF-Talk
> > > Subject: Software downloads on a client site w/ "vanishing URLs"
> > >
> > >
> > > I sent this out yesterday, but I replied to some other message,
> > and didn't
> > > change the subject, so I'm reposting under a unique subject in case
that
> > > thread had been dying out.
> > >
> > > I need to enable software downloads on a client site, for customers
who
> > > purchase access to them. I'm wondering if anyone has built
> > functionality
> > > into a shopping cart to allow this using "vanishing URL" methods?
> > > I'm using
> > > Mary Jo's CFWebStore (which rocks, by the way...) but that's one
feature
> > > that I need which isn't built in.
> > >
> > > <CFUG-SFL Manager>
> > > -Kev
> > > </CFUG-SFL Manager>
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Robert Forsyth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 5:40 PM
> > > > To: CF-Talk
> > > > Subject: Help with Anchor Tag
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have a query that spits out the last 10 feedbacks on a
> > > > particular news story....
> > > >
> > > > when they click on the summary, I open a new window to show all
> > > > feedback and set the page position from the calling link on the
> > > > parent's page. Of course, it does not work... here's the snippet
> > > > from the calling page:
> > > >
> > > > <cfoutput query="getreviews">
> > > > <a
> > > > href="javascript:pop_window('feedback.cfm?a=2&i=#news.idnum#&h=#tr
> > > >
im(news.headline)#&##035;#messageid#')">#trim(summary)#</font></a><p>
> > > > </cfoutput>
> > > >
> > > > which results in a url that is:
> > > >
> > > > <a href="feedback.cfm?a=2&i=2555&h=Gallaudet Students Fear For
> > > > Safetyצ">
> > > >
> > > > '1510' is the record messageid
> > > >
> > > > on the feedback.cfm page... I query all the the feedback for this
> > > > story and add a <a name> anchor in the output:
> > > >
> > > > <a name ="###messageid#">
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > But when the feedback.cfm loads, it does not jump to the anchor
> > > > location. Viewing the source shows that everything looks ok. Is
> > > > it possible to have a anchor-jump inside a dynamic url??
> > > >
> > > > thanks for the help!
> > > >
> > > > Robert Forsyth
> > > > Director of Web Operations
> > > > Irides, LLC
> > > > Phone: 202-364-7831
> > > > Fax: 202-364-2481
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