Display Downloadable PDF files on Website

[Alpine7]

If you have a web server living in a dmz and you want to place pdf files on
this web server for the user to download but these are proprietary files only
for that user. How would you do this. I understand how to build a secure site
and i know I can store the files on the webserver in a folder for each
particular client then use the Web.config file to secure this folder but I
would prefer to store these files inside the the network with the path saved
in a sql database. But do you then not create a security risk because you
would have to open up your firewall for these files to pass to the DMZ. Can
use ISA server to accomplish this. Any advice would be helpful.

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Alpine,

As I was you I woud first ask this question in a newsgroup about Security.

Your problem is in my idea not the VB language code, but how to do something
in a not so general way, while you are not sure if that is secure.

Not really a question for developers, who see security only as a needed
pain.

Cor