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Sent: Aug 21, 2003 02:11 PM
Subject: Re: WOT: Securing word docs, excel, etc in a web app
Hi,
This is off topic, but I am sure many of you have had to deal with
issues such as these in the past.
I have been living in a bubble for the past 3 years and have developped
many web apps in CF, ASP
Use CFCONTENT to push the documents from a directory that is not
accessible via the webroot:
CFHEADER NAME=Content-Disposition VALUE=attachment; filename=#download.filename#
CFCONTENT TYPE=#mimetype# FILE=#sharedfiles#\#download.filename# DELETEFILE=No
Where sharedfiles is a directory off the
Well, if the ISP/Host is on top of things, they'll let you have a folder
outside your web root. Then you can call the files with something like
cfcontent (if they allow it). If those two pieces fall into place, then
you can devise some type of encryption string to mask the variables which
call the
Two choices:
1) Place the files in a non-web accessible directory. Then, create a CF template
that retrieves the file from the non-web accessible directory.
2) Place the files into a database. Then, create a CF template that retrieves the
file from the database.
- Original Message
Hopefully your ISP can provide you with access to someplace outside of the web root,
first of all. Something that can be accessed by CF via a local path but not from a
browser via ftp or http.
What you want to do is use cfcontent and push files to clients, rather than letting
them be
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