Implementing expiring PDFs with Adobe LiveCycle Right Management ES
Prisma IT implemented a Proof-Of-Concept application for the delivery of PDF document downloads to website visitors that would expired immediately after delivery for a large financial services corporation in London.
The central combination of technologies in the Proof-Of-Concept was Adobe ColdFusion and Adobe LiveCycle. The website was written in ColdFusion and provided the user interface where users could select the document to download. The list of documents was maintained in the LiveCycle backend and was available to ColdFusion through a webservice invocation. When a user requested a document ColdFusion would invoke the LiveCycle backend to protect the requested document. On the backend LiveCycle Rights Management would protect a copy of the document with a policy allowing anonymous users to open the document, but not print, comment or modify it. Upon opening the document, or 2 minutes after creation, the LiveCycle server would revoke all access of the document, making it impossible for the user to open the document again.
