Re: Link to a PDF on IFS

["Schadd Gray" <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think *RX is only needed for CGI type directories.  HTML, images, etc. 
files only need *R.

Thank you,
Schadd Gray
Damon Technologies, Inc.
www.damontech.com
-----Original Message----- 
From: Bradley Stone
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:18 AM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Link to a PDF on IFS

QTMHHTP1 as well if it's CGI.  And I recall needing to give directories *RX
authority, just *R didn't work.

That may have changed.. I haven't played around with authorities since I
got them working.. :)

Brad
www.bvstools.com


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Vernon Hamberg 
<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> LOL - Oh, good!  ;)
>
> On 2/26/2013 6:29 AM, Schadd Gray wrote:
> > Vern,
> >
> > You are correct.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Schadd Gray
> > Damon Technologies, Inc.
> > www.damontech.com
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vernon Hamberg
> > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 9:58 PM
> > To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
> > Subject: Re: [WEB400] Link to a PDF on IFS
> >
> > Schadd
> >
> > Do you really need to give *R to *PUBLIC? Shouldn't it be enough to give
> > it to the user of the Apache server, which would be QTMHHTTP, probably?
> >
> > Vern
> >
> > On 2/25/2013 8:05 PM, Schadd Gray wrote:
> >> Yes, you could use Alias to map outside of the htdocs sandbox, however
> >> that
> >> just opens you up to potential security issues.  You would need to 
> >> grant
> >> *R
> >> authority to *Public on those folders.  If you are going to do that you
> >> should just put them under the htdocs structure and let the inheritance
> >> handle authorization.  What would be the purpose of opening up other
> parts
> >> of your IFS?  This method also makes it so that anyone can access those
> >> PDF
> >> files.  The second method easily allows for restricting the user that
> can
> >> access the file, you only hand them the ones they should see.
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >> Schadd Gray
> >> Damon Technologies, Inc.
> >> www.damontech.com
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: franz400
> >> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 5:32 PM
> >> To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
> >> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Link to a PDF on IFS
> >>
> >> I'd like to disagree with the "outside of htdocs...you cannot expose it
> to
> >> the web" statement.
> >> It just takes a directive in the Apache config, and it can be a naming
> >> that
> >> is hidden from the url
> >> so you are not exposing your true dir structure. Then it's a matter of
> the
> >> url pointing to
> >> the .pdf instead of a .html and your browser will know what to do. Have
> >> been
> >> serving .pdf
> >> (or .csv or .xls) this way to the web since 2000 in a similar tool -
> >> Websmart.
> >> Jim Franz
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Schadd Gray" <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: "Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 8:40 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Link to a PDF on IFS
> >>
> >>
> >>> I do not know much about LANSA, but in other web languages, if the PDF
> >>> file
> >>> on the IFS is outside of the web directory (/www/mysite/htdocs) you
> >>> cannot
> >>> expose it to the web.  You have two choices. 1) Place the PDF in the
> web
> >>> directory, but this allows every web user to access this PDF if they
> know
> >>> the path (not very secure).  2) Write a program to read the file from
> the
> >>> IFS and pipe it to the browser.  You would need to change the content
> >>> type
> >>> to "application/pdf".
> >>>
> >>> Thank you,
> >>> Schadd Gray
> >>> Damon Technologies, Inc.
> >>> www.damontech.com
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Jack Tucky
> >>> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 7:37 PM
> >>> To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> Subject: [WEB400] Link to a PDF on IFS
> >>>
> >>> I'm using LANSA on Iseries to run a website.  The user can press a
> >>> button,
> >>> I
> >>> call a CLP and create a PDF and email it to the end user.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to change it to display the PDF in the browser.  The PDF is 
> >>> on
> >>> the
> >>> IFS.  I know the path and file name of the PDF.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> What do I have to do to change the webserver show files from a 
> >>> specific
> >>> directory on the IFS?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, Jack.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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