The first question I would ask is "Why do they want the images stored in a non-web-accessible location" If the answer is something lame like, they don't want users to be able to download them, then you can get around this whole issue as you can tell them that there is no way to totally prevent a user from downloading the image.
If they have some valid answer like, they are concerned about people uploading something malicious or in that vein, then you can use several tricks to do it. If you have CF8, you can use the writeToBrowser function of CFIMAGE http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_i_02.html Which allows you to load up any image from anywhere on a server into memory and then output it to the browser HTH =] -- Alan Rother Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Manager, Phoenix Cold Fusion User Group, AZCFUG.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:325043 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
