Wow, I think it finally clicked. Sorry that took so long. The whole point behind using PHP was to try and copy or call the file from the server side so the user does not see the path to the document. Using HTML and Javascript it is extrememly easy to just view source and see the path. Whereas using PHP it would take the regular user a bit more work to view the path which is why I wanted to go that route. But having to grant the anonymous internet account access to the server would be just as bad if not worse. My application retrieves a list of docments that the user can view based on search criteria. When the user clicks on the document I wanted to somehow mask the location the document is being pulled from. HTML and Javascript are so easy to circumvent, even to the everyday user that I wanted to do something with PHP since it's code is not viewable when you view source since it is run on the server. Have any of you attempted something like this?
