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Originally posted by LBBV
Does anyone have any ideas? I imagine that putting them in a dir that is protected with .htaccess referer check may work, but I would imagine that there must be a more effective method.
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Unfortunately, using a referrer-based method does not work, because of the following reasons:
1. When you do a "right-click/save as", a referrer is not passed.
2. If you just open them using any Windows Media Player, a referrer is not passed.
We wrote a program called "PRS" (Private Referrer System) that our customer use. Basically, it uses a combination of protection methods. It uses a combination of referrers, PHP sessions and directory renaming. The directory renaming is there in case someone is able to circumvent the referrer and/or the session. Even if they do get around the first two and hot link the movies, the URL that they link to is only valid for 3 minutes.
We have quite a few of our customers using it on their third-party plugins and it works quite well.
You might try doing something like that, if you're handy with PHP. You could even write a small PERL script that renamed the directories and automatically updated your members movie page with the new "renamed" URL.
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That may be our only option at this point it seems. Thanks for the constructive advice, I will put together something in PHP and see what I can do.
Hey Microsoft
Rory
