Link stealing...

[mikey86]

Say you post a movie clip on your forum, but then someone else decides to paste that link on their forum, now their downloading off your site is there anyway to prevent such a thing? like if they wanted to download it, they would have to be on my website only?

[Andreas]

Checking the Referer would be the only possibility IMHO.

[N8]

The two best ways are probobly:

-Upload the movies to your forum database, and set permissions so guests can't download them.

-Search google for a "hotlink protection" script.

[Andreas]

"Hotlink Protection" == Referer Check :)

[mikey86]

hmm will give it a shot thanks

[Moya]

According msdn knowledge base (I read a while back when I tried to prevent this), they said webserver won't check the referer on media files. In another word, some site asks for those files, your server will fetch those files.

[noppid]

The two best ways are probobly:


-Upload the movies to your forum database, and set permissions so guests can't download them.

-Search google for a "hotlink protection" script.

That's a pretty good solution. But with video files, which tend to be large, perhaps store your attachments in the filesystem.