How to set up: enter email address to download a pdf file

[Mike Garfias]

Apache writing to the local dir is fine.

The catch is, you have to verify the content that is going in the file.  Make
sure its a real address.

What I'd probably do is use SQLite or another RDBMS and store the address,
then take the user to the download page.

Craig White spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 13:57 -0500, joe wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me a simple way to set up a routine on my website 
> > so people can download a pdf file simply by entering their email 
> > address and have the submitted email addresses saved on the web 
> > hosting system? 
> ----
> generally not a great idea to have apache capable of writing files
> anywhere except to maybe a non-executable temp file system which is
> probably not what you want to accomplish.
> 
> It might be easier to have a form that someone fills out that sends an
> email or creates a row in a database prior to downloading the file but
> the methodology would depend greatly on the type of code that the side
> is using (i.e. perl/cgi, rubyonrails, php or static html) and what the
> hosting server is permitting you to do. Might be a good thing to ask
> your hosting server.
> 
> Craig
> 
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