[Trygve]

I'd like to setup expirng or on-the-fly links. basically I have some files that I would like to control access to. When someone pays for one, I'd like to send them a link that only they can use. I can do this manually of course by setting up a special folder with username/password for each individual, but how can I do it in a more logical way?

Thanks,

Trygve

[deuce868]

You create a link with extra url parameters like:

http://mysite.com/file.php?username=someone

THen store in the db the username/file and an expiration time. When someone requests the file you would check that it hasn't expired and if so go get it and send it to the user. Otherwise say "No way".

Now the tricks to this are delivering the file to the user with forced downloads and storing your file ourside the web root so that they can't access it without any of the extra url parameters.

I haven't done this before, but it seems something like this should work.

[Trygve]

I got the ?username=someone part... the trick IS setting it up so the file can't be accessed without the url params. If the php script just redirects to http://mysite.com/files/somefile.sit then once they know the URL, it can be passed around.

I have often seen links like: http://mydomain.com/37fjos834ms934o9fmsj83/somefile.sit and I assume this is some sort of on-the-fly directory creation that can somehow know when the download is done and kill the directory.

Any thoughts?

[betoranaldi]

one of the scripts found on the following page might help you out.

http://php.resourceindex.com/Complet...nk_Protection/