Password protect a pdf

[mochalova]

Hello Folks,

I need users to provide a password before they can access a pdf file. How can I prevent someone simply sending out the link to the pdf and accessing it without the password?

Any help would be great.

Thank you.

 

[cfSearching]

Assuming you have a login page, you can serve up the file to authorized users with cfcontent. Then the pdf cannot be accessed directly. You can also use CF8's pdf features to assign a password (or other permissions) to the pdf itself. Lastly, there are o/s level mechanisms you can use.

Though nothing is fool proof. Once a file is viewable in a browser users can copy it one way or another and send it anywhere they please.

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[TruthInSatire]

to expand on cfsearching's comment, cfcontent works best if you put the pdf file outside of the webspace.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7c82.html

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