topic Re: controlled document access via URL in Alfresco Archive

controlled document access via URL

steverar — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:15:47 GMT

This may be a web content mgmnt question but …We have controlled documents that we only want to be accessed by specific websites. For instance, a.doc should only be accessed by a physician website and b.doc should only be accessed by a hospital website.Is there a way of having Alfresco see the the

Re: controlled document access via URL

zaizi — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:11:39 GMT

You can create users / groups in Alfresco to correspond to the different websites you have. When try and download a document they'll have to send the username / password in the header request. This assumes the request is coming from server side in these applications. This will not work if users on these different websites click through to Alfresco to download the documents.

Re: controlled document access via URL

steverar — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:42:51 GMT

Ok, so can be done programmatically .

I'd use this http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/RESTful_API_Reference#Content_Retrieval or this http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Content_Management_Web_Services ?

Re: controlled document access via URL

zaizi — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:42:33 GMT

It depends what exactly you want to do and if you have java skills in house. You can just utilise http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/URL_Addressability#DownloadContentServlet by adding a custom AOP Advice in Spring around it to do your custom authentication.