Why not use cfftp to connect to server B!!!!
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From: Evan Lavidor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 7:29 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Protecting Files Served via HTTP or FTP
Here's the situation: we have two servers. ServerA is a web server and
CF
server (4.5.1 SP2). ServerB is a web and FTP server (ideally, it would
just
be an FTP server, but bear with me here).
A user browses to a web site on ServerA, can fill out a form to request
a
file, and are directed to a HTTP download on ServerB. The problem is
that
they can then simply see where the file is located and HTTP there on
their
own, tell their friends, etc. We'd like to prevent this.
I know that I can use CFCONTENT to push files from a non web-browseable
directory, but we'd rather not have to install CF on ServerB, and using
ServerA to talk to ServerB via CFCONTENT and then push the file out to
the
user creates a bunch of extra network traffic I'd like to avoid.
Ultimately, I'd love to push these files out via FTP, but I can't see a
way
of doing that without making it anonymous FTP (which would defeat the
purpose) or making it non-anonymous FTP but showing the user the login
credentials (which I definitely don't want to do).
I know that companies have FTP downloads on their sites all the time -
how
does anyone else out there deal with this?
TIA for any thoughts!
Evan
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Circle.com Boston
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