Re: protecting video files

Check for extraneous spaces in your script. Tim Schulte wrote: > Hi there - > > I am having some weird problems here. I am try to write a script that > will check to see where a movie file is being called from. I want to define > which web page I will allow a movie to be called from, and block all others. > The script so far looks like this: > > The file gets called like this > > http://www.hardcorehosting.com/video/playmovie.php?movie=test.mov > > ============ playmovie.php =============== > <?php > header("Content-type: video/quicktime"); > $file=fopen($movie, "r"); > fpassthru($file); > ?> > ============= end script =================== > > which works fine until I add this at the top > > if($HTTP_REFERER != > "http://www.hardcorehosting.com/video/test.html") > { > exit(); > } > > to check and see where the page is being called from. It then gives me a > broken image. I've checked for space's and can't see what I'm doing wrong > :( Any suggestions ?? Thanks. > > Tim Schulte > webmaster@hardcorehosting.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net