RE: [PEAR] HTTP_Download - Hidden, how?
| From: | Mike Carter | Date: | Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:56:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PEAR] HTTP_Download - Hidden, how? | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Klaus Guenther [mailto:klaus@capitalfocus.org]
>
> From: "Mike Carter" <mikeatwork@ukonline.co.uk>
>
> > Just reading about the updated package 'HTTP_Download'. I
> don't understand
> > what is "hidden" about the download?
>
> Hidden refers to password protected or otherwise not directly
> downloadable
> files. In other words, you might not want everyone to be able
> to more or
> less anonymously download a file. Then you simply place it in
> a directory
> that is not open to the world and use HTTP_Download to
> provide the download
> interface. That way you can easily integrate user authentification and
> permissions (e.g. LiveUser).
AH! that explains it better. So its just acting as a go-between for the
download, in a way - an anti-leech mechanism.
Would be nice to have more of an explination of this in the documentation,
for others in the future. ;-)
Regards,
Mike C.
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