Download documents from private folder, how?

jacob · October 7th, 2006, 04:33 AM

Hey there.

Hope you can help me with this problem. I have several PDF files which should be downloadable through my web site, but only to a small group of people, which are logged on. The simple way to download these files would be to add a link directly to these, but this would be no good, if the files were in a private folder, and then it doesn't fulfill my requirements!

There are probably loads of components which enable downloads from private folders, but I am interested in the best freeware component for the job. Do you have any experience with this?

Actually, the best solution would be if I could code it my self, but how? Need inspiration.

Thanks, Jacob.

jacob · October 11th, 2006, 02:53 PM

Well, now I finally figured it out... These few lines do the trick...

Code:

Response.AppendHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment; filename=" + fileNameWhichTheFileWillBeDownloadedTo); 
Response.WriteFile(pathToFileToDownload); 
Response.Flush();

Thanks anyway, Jacob.