Re: Limit connection/download

At 20:57 2002-01-24 +0000, Symeon Charalabides wrote:

I have a web site with a lot of files that are downloadable only by registered users. Session variables are used to keep track of who is logged and who is not (non-registered users can still browse the files, but not download them). Now, I would like to have a limit of one download/user. Is there a way I can limit the downloads with PHP or even an Apache configuration? The simplest way is to set a flag via a cookie - very easy with PHP. Something along the lines of: if (DOWNLOAD)

        setcookie('has_downloaded','1',time()+60*60*24*(number of days),'\');

However, knowledgable people can see through the cookies system and delete the cookie from their PC, allowing them to download more. As I said, it's only the simplest system...

        This is a good idea, but then again, how do I know for sure when a user has finished his download and can download another file? With something like this (which I could enable in a session variable), a user can only download one file before being rejected by the system.

Olivier Hubert