Comments on: Protecting PDF files in IIS 6 using Forms Authentication http://www.chadscharf.com/index.php/2008/04/protecting-pdf-files-in-iis-6-using-forms-authentication/ It's always time to upgrade! Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:53:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Taliesin http://www.chadscharf.com/index.php/2008/04/protecting-pdf-files-in-iis-6-using-forms-authentication/comment-page-1/#comment-489 Taliesin Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:46:00 +0000 http://chadscharf.com/post.aspx?id=cb52d8b4-d442-418d-a5d3-d94c4ece3c86#comment-489 If you want to apply authorization, for pdf files. Check out this handler: http://code.google.com/p/talifun-web/wiki/RegexUrlAuthorizationModule It provides authorization on all urls that match a regular expression. It also allows you to apply any authorization that is supported by .net web.config files. Serving content from an http handler can be a tricky business, especially pdf files. Adobe Reader in "Allow fast web view" mode starts downloading a pdf and soon as it has enough bytes to display the first page it aborts the connection to the web server, and displays the first page. Then it makes a "multipart/byteranges" request to retrieve the rest of the document. This is what causes most download scripts to fail when serving pdf content. If you are looking for an http handler that will serve static files in a cached, compressed and resumable manner. Check out http://code.google.com/p/talifun-web/wiki/StaticFileHandler If you want to apply authorization, for pdf files.

Check out this handler:
http://code.google.com/p/talifun-web/wiki/RegexUrlAuthorizationModule

It provides authorization on all urls that match a regular expression. It also allows you to apply any authorization that is supported by .net web.config files.

Serving content from an http handler can be a tricky business, especially pdf files. Adobe Reader in “Allow fast web view” mode starts downloading a pdf and soon as it has enough bytes to display the first page it aborts the connection to the web server, and displays the first page. Then it makes a “multipart/byteranges” request to retrieve the rest of the document. This is what causes most download scripts to fail when serving pdf content.

If you are looking for an http handler that will serve static files in a cached, compressed and resumable manner.

Check out
http://code.google.com/p/talifun-web/wiki/StaticFileHandler

]]> By: Aaron http://www.chadscharf.com/index.php/2008/04/protecting-pdf-files-in-iis-6-using-forms-authentication/comment-page-1/#comment-260 Aaron Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:02:38 +0000 http://chadscharf.com/post.aspx?id=cb52d8b4-d442-418d-a5d3-d94c4ece3c86#comment-260 Great! It was very helpful. Great! It was very helpful.

]]> By: Ruble http://www.chadscharf.com/index.php/2008/04/protecting-pdf-files-in-iis-6-using-forms-authentication/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Ruble Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:16:51 +0000 http://chadscharf.com/post.aspx?id=cb52d8b4-d442-418d-a5d3-d94c4ece3c86#comment-173 This was very helpful for us. Thanks to your post we could solve a big problem of some one accessing our pdf's Thank you so very much. This was very helpful for us.
Thanks to your post we could solve a big problem of some one accessing our pdf’s
Thank you so very much.

]]> By: Kathy http://www.chadscharf.com/index.php/2008/04/protecting-pdf-files-in-iis-6-using-forms-authentication/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Kathy Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:36:20 +0000 http://chadscharf.com/post.aspx?id=cb52d8b4-d442-418d-a5d3-d94c4ece3c86#comment-84 Your article was fabulous, well described and easy to follow. thanks for contributing to Tech community. Regards, kathy Your article was fabulous, well described and easy to follow.
thanks for contributing to Tech community.

Regards,
kathy

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