Confirm File was accessed and by what IP?

Question

Greetings

I use cffile for an administrator to upload documents (PDF)
to a repository directory. The name of the file is captured to the
DB when uploaded.

I need to confirm if/when an end user has accessed the
document, and any other information I can capture (IP address,
etc.?) using a yes/no flag field and a field to store IP address?
The user's info is already a record in the DB, and their session
variable is available at log-in.

Thanks in advance

newportri

Newsgroup_User · Answer

instead of linking directly to the file in your pages, create an
intermediary page that will capture the user data you want, insert a
record into the db and then either serves up the file using
cfheader/cfcontent tags or cflocate to the actual file. you will need to
pass the filename requested by user to this intermediary page (i.e. in a
url var).

eg:
instead of links like <a href="somepdf.pdf"> you will have links like <a
href="viewfile.cfm?file=somepdf.pdf">

hth

Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/

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