I want to dump a load of files in a folder for users to download once
they've paid. Now I don't want them to work out where the file came from in
terms of URL structure as this may enable them to download the rest for
free.

So - is there an easy mechanism - preferably using ASP - on my webserver
that I can use to effectively mask the URL of downloadable files?

Thanks for any help.

nospam@nospam.com wrote:
Anything you tell the browser you also tell the user. If you don't tell
the browser where the file is, then it can't download it.

Slap an authentication layer in place and return an unauthorised
response if the user isn't allowed to access the file. (No idea how
you'd do that in ASP but its very easy in mod_perl).

nospam@nospam.com wrote:

Then fix that first.

<nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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I don't know ASP but it should be possible to avoid having a URL at all, by
streaming the data for the file down to the users using some ASP code.

Since you are using ASP, take a look at http://psacake.com/web/gj.asp (just
the first I found in Google).
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Thanks Brian. Unfortunately I've found that out already and the annoying
thing is that the files are PDFs which really don't behave properly when the
application/pdf line is substituted...

Its really getting on my nerves now. Grrr.

<nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Logically it should be possible, but having googled on it all I've turned up
is that you are not alone in having problems with PDFs.

If you can't get it to work and fall back on a traditional URL approach,
then could you copy the PDF to a temporary file that you create for each
specific user, link to that and delete the file after say an hour? Do you
see what I'm getting at?
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Haven't been following closely - has anyone suggested a little research
into response.binarywrite

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<nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

No.

You can make temporary URLs however, like only valid for 3 hours after
payment.

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John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> wrote:

Or you could email the file to them when payment is received.

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