Hi Henning,

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I wrote a short Article on this topic for my site (one of the fee articles I
do have - more coming). The example is for a PDF file, but applies to all
types of files.

http://xml-extra.net/webpage.xmlx?node=38

This does more or less exactly what you are asking for. Plus there is a
download for the example file.

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Good Luck and I hope this helps. Cheers...

Scott Cadillac
http://xml-extra.net
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VP, Research and Development
Plus International Corp.
604-460-1843
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http://www.plusinternational.com

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Does your company have an Enterprise Information Portal? Check out Salsa at
www.plusinternational.com/flash/salsa.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henning Sittler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 1:41 PM
Subject: Witango-Talk: Secure File Downloads


> Hi All,
>
> On one of my Tango 2K sites I want to offer files (.zip, .exe, etc.) for
> download to customers who have purchased them.  As far as the downloading
> the file is concerned, I'm not really sure how to produce the best
solution.
>
> Upon purchasing the product (the file for download), a "Click Here to
> Download" link should be presented.  Obviously, the link should not just
> point to the file.  Instead, I would imagine the file should be stored on
> the server outside the web folder tree, and the link displayed would point
> at a .taf file (or something) which takes input args to determine which
file
> to retrieve (by id number or something safe) and then output the file
> instead of outputing a web page.
>
> Does this sound right?  What else would I need to consider to make this
> work?  (Content-type headers, etc.)  Has anyone else implemented this sort
> of thing?  How so?
>
> I'm running on Linux, but any windows examples are fine too.
>
> Thanks much,
>
>
> Henning Sittler
> www.inscriber.com
>
>

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