Timeline for Authentication for external download

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May 15, 2015 at 21:00	comment	added	cfann61		Ended up creating a small authentication app on the server where the files are stored. So any requests to the file url are authenticated through Salesforce. Would've been cleaner to do it in Salesforce, but this offered a quick solution. Thanks for you help @CaspNZ
May 14, 2015 at 21:18	comment	added	Caspar Harmer		You know, you could prob do this all in javascript - just supply the url to a javascript or jQuery function, grab the data and set it as an attribute on the anchor tag. Of course, you have exposed the url in javascript, but only a developer will know about that.
May 14, 2015 at 21:15	comment	added	Caspar Harmer		Oh bummer. There's not much you can do about that, as heap size. I think the limit is 6MB now. Actually, if you make the call with a `Continuation` which is async, you might get up to 12MB.
May 14, 2015 at 21:04	comment	added	cfann61		Thanks @CaspNZ. This would've worked, but my file size was too big for the Attachment class
May 14, 2015 at 21:03	vote	accept	cfann61
May 14, 2015 at 19:20	vote	accept	cfann61
May 14, 2015 at 19:20
May 14, 2015 at 18:47	history	edited	Caspar Harmer	CC BY-SA 3.0	Improved example
May 14, 2015 at 18:41	history	edited	Caspar Harmer	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 146 characters in body
May 14, 2015 at 18:22	history	answered	Caspar Harmer	CC BY-SA 3.0