[Ranma2k]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Thinking about this (but without spending time trying it out )...

If force_redirect is off, etc, the download is handled as a series of reads/writes. The code uses an fopen() call to access the download file, and this turns into an HTTP GET. My Apache log shows that this GET is recorded against the IP address of the requesting server, so your file host should be able to see that the request is legitimate.

If force_redirect is on, then the code eventually drops through to the STANDARD_REDIRECT template within Vbulletin. This sends a series of HTTP headers to the file host, and I would think you could add an HTTP_REFERER.

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i'll give it a try .. and i'll post the results here