Re: protecting video files

On Fri, 11 May 2001 17:28:25 -0500, WebMaster (webmaster@hardcorehosting.com) wrote: >I did :( went character by character and could find not extra spaces. > >At 06:16 PM 5/11/01 -0400, Michael Kimsal wrote: >>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); >> > ?> some suggestions: 1) use "rb" instead of "r" for binary files 2) you forgot to fclose the file handle. 3) try readfile() instead.