[TYPO3-dev] Filemount / Filelink-Concept

[Kasper Skårhøj]

I think its a good idea and someone could describe a solution in more  
details.

I think extending the filemount table is not needed since you can  
already mount absolute paths. The only requirement is that the  
absolute path is within a "lock" directory set up in TYPO3_CONF_VARS.  
But it makes very much sense to NOT change this for security related  
reasons.

Thus, all you need is sweet-talk Stanislas/Rene Fritz work on the RTE/ 
Element browser + integrate support in typolink for detecting links  
to files outside PATH_site.

- kasper



On Jan 9, 2006, at 15:05 , Daniel Brün wrote:

> Hi list!
>
> Every now and then a client asks for secure downloads or downloads  
> from
> some not-www-accessible directory. Basically this means storing the
> files in some directory that the webserver will never deliver to  
> the world.
> There are already two extensions that deal with this issue
> (rlmp_securedownload and nf_downloads), but both of them are poorly
> integrated with TYPO3 and not very intuitive to use (no point-and- 
> klick).
>
> That's why I could imagine the following:
>
> When setting up a filemount I can define several additional options,
> such as "Directory not www-accessible" or "FE-Groups".
> Whenever an author creates a file-link in the RTE and links to a
> protected file, the link automagically points to a download.php-file
> which takes care of reading the file from the FS and delivering it.  
> The
> download-Script should also check for the required permissions. All
> parameters (filename, filemount-id) should be encrypted using the
> standard encryption string and passed to the script as simple
> GET-Parameters.
>
> This would also make a lot of sense _without_ setting FE-Groups at  
> all,
> because this way one could deliver files from locations that are not
> accessible via www (in some cases, eg. in Windows, symbolic links can
> not be used!).
>
> In order to achieve this functionality, some code would have to be  
> extended:
> 1. Extend filemount-table
> 2. Extend link-dialogs (RTE, htmlarea...)
> 3. Extend rendering (typoscript-FE)
>
> All in all this sounds like heavy XCLASSING, which is no option for me
> and leads to the conclusion that this would be a great feature for  
> the core!
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
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