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mikey86 · #1 06-20-2005, 07:30 PM

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 · #2 06-20-2005, 07:33 PM

Checking the Referer would be the only possibility IMHO.

N8 · #3 06-20-2005, 07:44 PM

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 · #4 06-20-2005, 07:49 PM

"Hotlink Protection" == Referer Check

mikey86 · #5 06-20-2005, 07:57 PM

hmm will give it a shot thanks

Moya · #6 06-20-2005, 10:26 PM

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 · #7 06-21-2005, 01:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by N8_115

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.

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