[ic] Restricting access to PDFs
Kevin Walsh
kevin at cursor.biz
Tue Aug 1 03:29:00 EDT 2006
Grant <emailgrant at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to limit the display of PDF files to admins. I've put my
> PDFs in a directory below the docroot and set up apache2 to require
> authentication to access that directory. The whole thing works fine,
> but I was wondering if there might be an IC way to do this?
>
The IC way to do things like that is to treat the files as "soft goods".
The idea is that you create a randomly-named directory and symlink
your file into there. You can then provide a URI to your file without
much chance of anyone guessing the path.
The symlink setup can be gated using whatever Interchange-based
authentication you deem appropriate.
For an example, see the [enable-downloads] UserTag, on this page:
http://www.interchange.rtfm.info/downloads/usertags/index.html
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