Secure Downloads Page

[MicahDB]

I have (what is to me) a relatively complicated solution on mind for a customers secure downloads page. I'm hoping some discussion on the topic can help me get to where I need to go.

Situation: Customer has documents to download, but they would like to capture name, email, etc from the people that are downloading.

My solution: I would like to have a select box so a site visitor can select multiple files to download and then just below have the required content to fill out and then they submit.

Issue: I don't believe you can make multiple connections for downloading (actually I think I read you can do 2 in IE and unlimited in Mozilla, but I don't now that for sure). My thought was to dynamically build an array in the session information and then loop through the array and download one after another.

Thoughts? I'm usually good at coming up with the idea, but implementing is a whole different issue.

Thanks,
micah

 

[Sheco]

Could you just put all of the files into a single .ZIP archive on the server and then push that one file?

 

[Sheco]

Server-side zip might not scale up too well...
Max and average number of concurent users?
Max and average number of total megabytes downloaded per user?
How many unique files?

 

[MicahDB]

It's a business site, so I wouldn't think there would be that many concurent users. I really need to dynamically create the information to download, as the user will be selecting only the files he/she wants to download. They may only want one file.

Site owners could add new content anytime to this secure area. So number of unique files would change. Right now there are 6 secure files for download.

Thanks for the conversation.
Micah