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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catsclaw227" data-source="post: 4530058" data-attributes="member: 14197">This just isn't true.  The key issue lies with the PDF viewer's option to open the PDF in the browser.  There's an easy option for those of you with Acrobat v8.  Just go to Edit/Preferences then choose Internet on teh left pane, then uncheck the box to open PDFs in the browser.  [NOTE:  You should close all browser instances either before or after doing this]From then on, you won't open your PDFs in the browser. As Henry stated, there are other similar options for other PDF plug-ins.It may or may not have to do with their CMS and the authenticaiton methods of their system.  I've worked with many different CMS tools, both open source and otherwise, both php and .net, and sometimes this is done with a plug-in component and sometimes the developers roll their own system.Either way, I would agree that this is something that could be fixed. But I imagine the reason WOTC probably hasn't done something more extensive like maximising authorization, authentication and a simple DB table of "content-to-users" or something is that they are already up to their ears.  It isn't a priority with all these simple options available.  Security comes first, usability comes second (unfortunate, but necessary).Oh.. and I have no idea why they are running an older CMS that uses classic asp, other than the fact that they have too many systems tied together by this older paradigm, and changing would be a monumental task.</blockquote>

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