Access download links service without logging in

[sisao]

Hi,

i'm actually tuning an application that is using alfresco as a document repository….doing all the import/delete/create/authenticate job via WS API.
After populating a jsp page with the content stored into an alfresco folder i'd like to be able to download the relative document WITHOUT having to login the webclient.

I'm using the path :
http://hostnameort/alfresco/d/a/workspace/SpacesStore/uuid/filename
in order to build up my hrefs, and i refresh the session ticket even while populating the jsp with the WS method startSession(username, userpass)…..

This seems not to be the right auth needed by the repository in order to let it validate those links, and not ask for a client login when a user clicks on those.
Any idea on how can i solve this problem?

Regards.

[zaizi]

You can use the guest download servlet. More details at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/URL_Addressability#GuestDownloadContentServlet

[sisao]

Thx for the tip….i'm anyway not willing to use that solution beacuse the folders where the documents are stored are not accessible by the guest user. I'm going the way of adding a ?ticket= to authenticate the download….let's see if i can work it out 

Thx!