[thelist] ASP Wishful Thinking

[Chris Blessing]

Ken-

You can't link to them directly without a virtual directory or moving them
to the actual web space, but you could always funnel them (albeit, slowly)
through FSO and out to the client in ascii or binary mode (as necessary).
You could even determine the "content/type" via the filename.extension no?

Would that work for you?

Chris Blessing
webguy at mail.rit.edu
http://www.330i.net

> I've got a directory outside my webspace, which is being read by the FSO
> engine. It spits out a listing of all files/folders in the directory. Easy
> enough.
>
> Now the Powers That Be want to link to these files (mainly doc, xls, and
> pdf). They're outside the physical webspace for security reasons
> (the files
> are uploaded via ASP, so the directory they're in has write permissions on
> it, and the Network Staff says it's gotta be outside the root of the
> website).
>
> There's no way to link to them, is there?
>
> I've got ideas as far as how to sidestep this (virtual directory,
> perhaps),
> but I can't just link to these files, can I?
>
> -Ken
>
> P.S. This is the official CYA (actually, CMA) email on this
> topic, so if it
> sounds like a stupid question... :-)