Posted by psion on 11/19/87 11:45

Hello,
I have not found a clear way of doing what I want and resort to posting
my question.

I have a php file that will link to pdf files from a directory called
pdf (within the apache htdocs folder). The way I have it coded now, the
address to the pdf shows in the address bar, and a user can modify just
the file name to read other files, which is something I don't want.
I am trying to deny access to this pdf directory to anyone except the
localhost, so that changing the file name will not allow viewing it. Is
this the proper way I should go about resolving the matter?
Is there a better way?

Thank you,
psion

P.S. I have tried what I think would be best, which is to display a pdf
file by "printing" it with the php file, ie:

$file_contents = file_get_contents('$filename');
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
print $file_contents;

but I get an error, stating that the pdf file can't be displayed
because it may be corrupt, and it isn't. Was anyone successful in doing
something like this?

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