[ic] Restricting access to PDFs

[Kevin Walsh]

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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