download-gateway for slide-documents

[Stefan Burkard <ne...@burknet.ch>]

hi slide-users

summary about my situation:
first of all, i have a slide-installation that runs in tomcat on a 
webserver. there is NO direct access for anybody (because 
user-management is already done outside of slide).
all except content is stored in a database on a db-server. content is 
stored in the filesystem of the webserver

additionally i have an existing website that is driven by macromedia 
coldfusion. authenticated users can access some extra pages to search 
and download documents - and these documents are stored in slide

i realised the search for documents with a direct search in the 
slide-metadata (in the database); thats running fine. with this search i 
can show a list of documents, stored in slide, that match the 
search-criteria.

the remaining problem is now: how can i give the users the possibility 
to download a document "out of slide" when theres no access to slide?

best way would be if i could read the document in any way and then 
"connect" the http-request of the user with this "bytestream". so lets 
call it a download-gateway for slide-documents.

is there anything in slide that could help me for this case? i even hope 
anybody understands what i mean :-)

greetings
stefan





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Re: download-gateway for slide-documents

[Andreas Probst <an...@gmx.net>]

You could use the WebDAV client API or the Jakarta Commons HTTP 
client to connect to Slide from your service. Get the 
InputStream and copy it to the OutputStream of the user's 
request. Of course Slide must be accessible for the service, not 
for the users.

Things become interesting when you implement unbuffered 
streaming of the content and support chunked transfer-encoding 
etc.

Regards,

Andreas


On 27 Aug 2004 at 18:15, Stefan Burkard wrote:

> hi slide-users
> 
> summary about my situation:
> first of all, i have a slide-installation that runs in tomcat on a 
> webserver. there is NO direct access for anybody (because 
> user-management is already done outside of slide).
> all except content is stored in a database on a db-server. content is 
> stored in the filesystem of the webserver
> 
> additionally i have an existing website that is driven by macromedia 
> coldfusion. authenticated users can access some extra pages to search 
> and download documents - and these documents are stored in slide
> 
> i realised the search for documents with a direct search in the 
> slide-metadata (in the database); thats running fine. with this search i 
> can show a list of documents, stored in slide, that match the 
> search-criteria.
> 
> the remaining problem is now: how can i give the users the possibility 
> to download a document "out of slide" when theres no access to slide?
> 
> best way would be if i could read the document in any way and then 
> "connect" the http-request of the user with this "bytestream". so lets 
> call it a download-gateway for slide-documents.
> 
> is there anything in slide that could help me for this case? i even hope 
> anybody understands what i mean :-)
> 
> greetings
> stefan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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