Re: moving

On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 05:13:24PM -0800, bryan wrote : > I have a site where people have to pay for the pictures. He is > a professional photographer and does not want people stealing > his work. When they download and image, they pay for it. The > problem with that is, if I have images named 001.jpg, 002.jpg, > people can type that into the URL and get the other image > without paying for it. Is there a way to rename a file once > clicked on to download to eliminate this from happening? > > So, the user clicks on the image, called from the database, > have it renamed, and then delete it from the database, so they > never see the real filename... Store your images _outside_ you document root folder of your webspace and you a php-script to pass it to the client. This script checks for cookies, session or whatever and only outputs the right image when a valid user. m. -- Markus Fischer, http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/ EMail: mfischer@josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at PGP Public Key: http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc PGP Fingerprint: D3B0 DD4F E12B F911 3CE1 C2B5 D674 B445 C227 2BD0