Re: How to secure Flash Video?

On Jan 4, 2008 12:58 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi gang: > > Here's the problem. > > I have a client who has Flash Videos and wishes to rent these Videos > out for a certain time period. (No, it's not porn -- shame on you). I stopped reading at this point, due to lack of interest. Then I started again. > However, once the user is provided with a url where the Flash Video > resides, then the user can view the video remotely by just creating a > page that references that url -- that's easy to do. > > Now, how can I stop that from happening? You could do link expirations with an auto-generated URL to mask the actual location, or could even create a dynamic symlink or copy on the server itself. Have it expire and regenerate a new link every 15 minutes. To stop people from remotely-linking the video, disable hotlinking of that file (or type) in Apache. -- Daniel P. Brown [Phone Numbers Go Here!] [They're Hidden From View!] If at first you don't succeed, stick to what you know best so that you can make enough money to pay someone else to do it for you.