RE: Securing word docs, excel, etc in a web app

2003-08-26 Thread Matt Blatchley
Grif, I've done the something similar to what your talking about. What I did was to create a groupID and employeeID based off the user session. Once the user goes to the section that contains the files, I check to make sure they have the exclusive rights to the doc by testing the session

RE: Securing word docs, excel, etc in a web app

2003-08-26 Thread webguy
Looks like no-one replied to your last mail. Basically, there why to handle this is to but you docs into an non web accessable folder, and use cfcontent to server the files like sorry... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 August 2003 16:06 To: CF-Talk Subject: WOT:

Re: Securing word docs, excel, etc in a web app

2003-08-26 Thread Jeff Garza
Grif, You will have to store all the information about uploaded files in a database, my db's for this typically include the filename, filesize, filetype (although you can get this from the extenstion...), dateuploaded, uploadedby, etc... You can get fancier by adding in relationship tables that pu

RE: Securing word docs, excel, etc in a web app

2003-08-26 Thread Adam Reynolds
What you need to do is store all documents away from the web root and deliver the files to the end users through cfcontent. Please note this can cause issues if the user's client has not got its mime types correctly set up. I've had issues where some people were unable to see excel spreadsheets, a

RE: Securing word docs, excel, etc in a web app

2003-08-26 Thread Lincoln Milner
Grif, What we've done for a similar system is to have the CFFILE tag write them to a directory outside the webroot. In our case, we have /local/web for the web root, and /local/web_docs for the documents to be stored. We have links for each document, and the path to those documents is stored

RE: Securing word docs, excel, etc in a web app

2003-08-21 Thread Douglas.Knudsen
look at You can place files outside of your web root and push them to the client via cfcontent. Doug >-Original Message- >From: Griffin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 2:11 PM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: WOT: Securing word docs, excel, etc in a web app > > >Hi,

RE: Securing word docs, excel, etc in a web app

2003-08-21 Thread Tyler Clendenin
Does this ISP provide ASP, ColdFusion, PHP or something else of the sort? Tyler Clendenin GSL Solutions -Original Message- From: Griffin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 3:03 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: WOT: Securing word docs, excel, etc in a web app Hi, This is of