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How to provide a hyperlink to file without revealing path?
I need to provide an href / hyperlink in a web browser to a file, so that the user can open/download it, but NOT provide the full path to the file (for security reasons).
What's the best way to do this?
What's the best way to do this?
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Link to a server-side script of some sort that includes the file from another location and sends it back to the user.
Something like this:
http://www.yoursite.com/downloadafile.php
Something like this:
http://www.yoursite.com/downloadafile.php
$file_url = 'http://www.yoursite.com/dont/browse/to/this/file.exe';
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"" . basename($file_url) . "\"");
readfile($file_url);
I get the gist, but am familiar with asp.net/c#, so the php isn't clear.
Suggestion on how to do this in C# on ASP.NET? (Sorry I didn't say so in the beginning).
Suggestion on how to do this in C# on ASP.NET? (Sorry I didn't say so in the beginning).
Sorry, I don't work on Windows. I will add those topics to your question so those Experts will see it.
Jason C. Levine's suggestion pointed me in the right direction, even though it was from the LAMP world. I had in my head to somehow fool an <a href... tag to pull this off, which was wrong.
As it turns out, this is almost trivially simple in the ASP.NET MVC world (after looking in the right direction).
Here are 2 references if anybody else wants to know how to implement this using ASP.NET MVC:
www.prideparrot.com/blog/a
MSDN's FileResult documentation
As it turns out, this is almost trivially simple in the ASP.NET MVC world (after looking in the right direction).
Here are 2 references if anybody else wants to know how to implement this using ASP.NET MVC:
www.prideparrot.com/blog/a
MSDN's FileResult documentation
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