Re: Send PDF to Browser -- WEB400

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Yes, everyone can read it if they know the path and name. I have done a
few projects like this and I just put them in odd directories with random
100 character names. The href looks like

<a href="/path/P62UuCwFhRx1amnsBekU......pdf>filename.pdf</a>

Some also use PDF passwords.

If they can get to it from a directory, why can't they get to it from a CGI
program? Just have to know the right path.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Bradley

If you just store PDF's in a public directory everyone can read it and you
have no chance
to know when it has been read so it is very common that you serve PDF's by
using af
CGI program that even may have security build around it.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why not just store the PDF in your web path in a different directory and
offer a link to the PDF? Why go through all the trouble of reading the

PDF

and outputting it?

Brad
www.bvstools.com

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