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Topic: Linking to Specific PDF Page from file stored in Database
Conf: (P-PDF) Acrobat 7, Msg: 126315
From: aandi
Date: 1/26/2005 03:17 AM
You mean write the file to a directory in the server's directories, and redirect to it? That is very feasible. It has several issues
1. Uniqueness: the file name must be unique because two people may visit close together.
2. Security: is the data confidential? If so, how would you stop hackers getting at it once it is in a server folder?
3. Duration: you don't know when the file is finished with. Nothing will tell you. The client might make one or a hundred connections to fetch the file. Generally, a separate process run at intervals to delete files older than (perhaps) 12 hours might be useful.
4. Server administration. On a well run server, scripts cannot write to the server directories. This is a basic rule of good management, a second layer of protection against vandals and hackers. You would need to negotate a special writeable directory with the server administrators.
