topic Url Addressability-Direct download to no guest users in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/url-addressability-direct-download-to-no-guest-users/m-p/111388#M78309 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>After reading carefully the wiki documentation about the URL Addressability some doubts remain.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><EM>My situation is the following</EM><SPAN>:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a </SPAN><EM><STRONG>custom web application that access the Alfresco repository </STRONG></EM><SPAN>(Alfresco 1.4 but 2.0 in the very next future) calling c</SPAN><EM><STRONG>ustom web services </STRONG></EM><SPAN>published into the Alfresco installation itself. These web services are built on top of the Alfresco core APIs, are public available like other Alfresco ws and execute a specialised task upon the Alfresco repository objects, obviously each ws opens a new session, authenticates the current user, execute a task, then close the session. As a consequence, I suppose the user ticket is available only during the session itself and is automatically destroyed when the session is closed. </SPAN><SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;"><STRONG>My custom web application needs to access directly some contents in the Alfresco repository, for both viewing and downloading.</STRONG></SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I would like to use the </SPAN><STRONG>DownloadContentServlet </STRONG><SPAN>passing a URL with the reference to the content to download, but….</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Due to the authentication mechanism, the only way to perform this task is to provide a valid ticket as a parameter to the URL, but I think I am not allowed to do it because I don't have a valid ticket inside my custom web application. So, what other mechanism to download contents should I use?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I tried to use the </SPAN><STRONG>GuestDownloadContentServlet</STRONG><SPAN>, it works if and only if the Alfresco content is available to a guest user, but I don't have guest users in my custom web application, I have only registered ones.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So, what is the best solution for my problem?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Perhaps, should I write a custom Java class that uses the Alfresco APIs to authenticate a user and deploy it directly inside the Tomcat installation for my custom web app? Should this class create a new session with the logged user, get a user ticket, invoking the direct download servlet, then close the session?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hoping someone could help me with this task,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>all the best.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Sergio</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:17:27 GMT sergio 2007-04-12T09:17:27Z Url Addressability-Direct download to no guest users https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/url-addressability-direct-download-to-no-guest-users/m-p/111388#M78309 Hi all.After reading carefully the wiki documentation about the URL Addressability some doubts remain.My situation is the following:I have a custom web application that access the Alfresco repository (Alfresco 1.4 but 2.0 in the very next future) calling custom web services published into the Alfres Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:17:27 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/url-addressability-direct-download-to-no-guest-users/m-p/111388#M78309 sergio 2007-04-12T09:17:27Z Re: Url Addressability-Direct download to no guest users https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/url-addressability-direct-download-to-no-guest-users/m-p/111389#M78310 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>No one interested in replying to this basic problem?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I would like to hear something from the Alfresco engineers.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>All the best,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Sergio</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:52:14 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/url-addressability-direct-download-to-no-guest-users/m-p/111389#M78310 sergio 2007-04-20T11:52:14Z Re: Url Addressability-Direct download to no guest users https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/url-addressability-direct-download-to-no-guest-users/m-p/111390#M78311 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">I would like to use the <STRONG>DownloadContentServlet </STRONG>passing a URL with the reference to the content to download, but….<BR />Due to the authentication mechanism, the only way to perform this task is to provide a valid ticket as a parameter to the URL, but I think I am not allowed to do it because I don't have a valid ticket inside my custom web application. So, what other mechanism to download contents should I use?<BR /><BR />I tried to use the <STRONG>GuestDownloadContentServlet</STRONG>, it works if and only if the Alfresco content is available to a guest user, but I don't have guest users in my custom web application, I have only registered ones.<BR /><BR />So, what is the best solution for my problem?<BR /><BR />Perhaps, should I write a custom Java class that uses the Alfresco APIs to authenticate a user and deploy it directly inside the Tomcat installation for my custom web app? Should this class create a new session with the logged user, get a user ticket, invoking the direct download servlet, then close the session?</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN>Yes that is probably the best way. You require a ticket - it is essential for the security of the repository that you login to access the content. A simple webservices call is enough to retrieve a valid ticket.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Kevin</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:06:52 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/url-addressability-direct-download-to-no-guest-users/m-p/111390#M78311 kevinr 2007-04-20T13:06:52Z Re: Url Addressability-Direct download to no guest users https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/url-addressability-direct-download-to-no-guest-users/m-p/111391#M78312 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks Kevin!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>At least an answer from the Alfresco engineers.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Sergio</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:19:11 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/url-addressability-direct-download-to-no-guest-users/m-p/111391#M78312 sergio 2007-04-20T14:19:11Z