Give file access to Google Doc Viewer

[atreidex]

Hello everyone!

Is there any simple way to give access to protected files for Google Doc Viewer.
I want to download-protect a DOC file and then include it in a page using a plugin like "Google Doc Embedder".
However, s2member sees the Google server as a unregistered member and i get a "sorry-no access" error when trying to see the file in the preview frame.

Any help / tip is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Ciprian

[Cristián Lávaque]

Hi Ciprian. I emailed Jason asking him how it could be done.

[Jason Caldwell]

Ordinarily, if you were going to integrate with a 3rd-party tool like Google's Doc Viewer, you would integrate your protected file with "Advanced Download Restrictions" ( i.e. using a Download Key ), as is discussed in your Dashboard, under: s2Member -> File Downloads -> Advanced Download Restrictions.

For example, this should work:

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http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=<?php echo urlencode(site_url("/?s2member_file_download_key=".s2member_file_download_key("/file.doc")."&s2member_file_download=/file.doc")); ?>

However, upon testing this specifically with the Google Doc Viewer, it does not work. I suspect this has something to do with limitations in the Google Doc Viewer though, because this technique has been confirmed to work with a variety of other services. If anyone figures out how to make this work with Google Doc Viewer, please share

[Jason Caldwell]

Setting up a virtual directory with mod_rewrite might allow this to work with Google Doc Viewer?
See discussion here if you'd like to try this: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=14643#p32717