hi

I want to prevent users from viewing documents by typing in URL directly like localhost/venture/DocFolder/some.pdf without login in.

How do can I accomplish this?

Many thanks in advance

The easiest way would be to put the contents in a database. And with PDF you should be able to do that.

Edited by - Lilac Crafts on 23 Mar 2004 23:52:47

Thanks, but can you roughly tell me what datatype should i use in SQL2000 inorder to place the PDF file into DB. How can i accomplish it because i really had no idea how i can put the whole PDF content into DB.

You mentioned PDF, can it also accept excel, powerpoint and word

Thanks

I would simply put the path of the documents into a DB, then use a kind of "view.asp" page that is a frame that simply pulls in the document by it's ID... that way, you are never linking directly to a document itself, so people won't be seeing the "www.mysite.com/docs/docname.pdf" in the URL - instead they'll see "www.mysite.com/view.asp?ID=5" or something like that.

This way, you can also set a permission setting for each document, and if someone doesn't have that level of access, you can simply disallow them the ability to view it - that code could either be in that "view.asp" page itself, or you could never display the link at all.

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