Preventing Direct Downloads [Archive] - ForumsHQ

[syntax53]

I'm going to add a downloads section to mudinfo.net but I wanted to prevent ppl from linking directly to the downloads off of their site. I've tried a few things but was wondering if anyone already figured out a good way to do it.



-syn

[Raybdbomb]

anti-leech

[syntax53]

n/m i figured it out by using a .htaccess file.



try it: http://www.mudinfo.net/downloads/b2h_v2.3.0.4.zip



here's the file i made incase anyone else wanted to do it. note, this requires apache with support for mod_rewrite:





RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yoursite.com/.*$ [NC]

RewriteRule \.(zip|exe)$ http://www.yoursite.com/pathto/errorpage.html [R,L]





(yes i know you can just copy the url and paste it, but that's ok)

[War Hawk]

hrm..... could have done it in php I Think too....

[Raybdbomb]

oh yeah forgot about that...



it's pretty easy to do with php



however, warhawk, it's quite easy to trace where the dl's are comin from if you do it with php

[War Hawk]

no its not :) You obviously don't know how to write php then.... You can hide so much info in php.....

[Raybdbomb]

setup a page with a download that you think i can't get the direct link for war hawk

[Raybdbomb]

god damnit, now i can't find the tracer...



as soon as i get it again i'll tell you, k? :P

[iNViSiGOD]

PHP is messy at best tho.

[Raybdbomb]

and sloppy at worst?