On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 18:20, Geoff Bowers wrote: > James Cowperthwaite wrote: > > If I happened to be on a host who had disallowed the <cfcontent> tag and > > I was trying to serve a customer a file which they had just purchased, > > would there be an alternative way in coldfusion 4.5, 5 to deliver that > > file without exposing the path to the link? ie I want to be able to > > authenticate users before letting them download particular files. > > To serve the file from outside of the webroot? No.
>From inside the webroot is fine (actually I dont have a choice...) Its more about not allowing anyone to know where the files live and then just leach them all. > > Another mechanism is to copy a temp file to a location under the webroot > -- give the person a while to download and then remove. But I suspect > your shared host will be blocking CFFILE :( CFFile is active - but we would like the user to be able to come back and download if it is interrupted etc > > > Can MX do this another way? > > CFMX has a Java sandbox (under Enterprise). With the sandbox in place > there is no reason why CFCONTENT should be prohibited. May have to upgrade server to MX... fun fun Thanks James > > It's the built-in things like CFCONTENT, CFFILE etc that really > differentiates CF from other platforms.. but heh I'm preaching to the > converted. > > -- geoff > http://www.daemon.com.au/ > > PS. MXDU tickets on sale now! > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia > http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004 --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
