I would put them in a directory not accessible by clients, and have node route urls with specific hashes, for each file for each user. The route could be something like /$user/download/$hash (anything with a $ in front of it will vary based off of user). The combination of $user and $hash should be stored in a database so you can find out if it is valid and what file it should be. Then send the file.
I have never implemented something like this, but this is how I would probably do it. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:45 PM, C. Mundi <[email protected]> wrote: > This is obviously a solved problem. I don't want to reinvent the wheel. > > Imagine a digital music store. I have a set of static files which I need > to serve only to authenticated users. So the set of accessible files > depends on the user. How do I let each user get the files she is entitled > to and no other files? > > Bad Idea 1: security by obscurity: hide the files behind query strings > generated on the fly for session.user in the form of nasty looking hard to > guess hashes. Ugly hack and vulnerable to brute force hash collision. > Yuck! > > Bad Idea 2: set up an instance of node-static.Server() for each > authenticated session, specifically serving a directory created on the fly > for that session and containing symlinks to all (and only) files for which > session.user has privileges. The main server would redirect requests for > files to the ad hoc static server. Kludgus maximus! > > Good Idea: what you tell me. :) > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
