Re: Server side redirection - yet again

2010/1/27 Jacob Kruger <jacobk@mailzone.co.za>: > I know this most likely isn't possible, and am currently using javascript, > along with using PHP script in each page to just double check a session > login before displaying page content to make sure the user/person browsing > the specific page is in fact logged in, etc., but I now have a word document > that would be nice to make downloadable from the members section of a > website, but not sure how it would be possible to really stop someone from > downloading the file if, for whatever reason they had the direct URL for it, > without sort of never really offering that to anyone without having sort of > redirected them via backend to get the file - sort of like maybe loading the > file into a buffer of sorts, setting the response file type, and then > sending it to them - not sure how possible/doable this is via PHP, or on a > linux server? > > I know I could alternatively just create an HTML file bazsed on the word > document, and then implement the PHP session checking into it, etc., but > would really prefer to just keep the document unchanged as such. > > Stay well > > Jacob Kruger > Blind Biker > Skype: BlindZA > '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 4808 (20100126) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Step 1 would be to put the document outside of the doc_root/public_html/etc. That way there is no direct URL. Step 2 would be to create a downloader which validates the session and if all is well, issues the appropriate headers to force a download and then readfile() the document. No direct access to the download. Must be validated to get the download. Simple to implement. -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling