[snip]
I'm trying to allow users to download files from my servers. Files can
be hundreds of MB in size
and sometimes even a few GB. This is a closed section of the site and i
would like to allow only
members to be able to DL the files.
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Since it is open to members only couldn't you requir
* Thus wrote Boaz Yahav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Can you fake a referrer by say, using fsockopen() and sending your
> own headers?
Yes, and in fact there are programs designed to work around this
exact (so called) security check.
I've seen hosting services use this method of protecting their
fi
Can you fake a referrer by say, using fsockopen() and sending your
own headers?
-Original Message-
From: Curt Zirzow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 4:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Downloding files once
* Thus wrote Boaz Yahav ([EMAIL
From: "Boaz Yahav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Can you fake a referrer by say, using fsockopen() and sending your
> own headers?
Yep.
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* Thus wrote Boaz Yahav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> I thought of using a download function that uses headers and readfile()
> or fread(). This way i can
> check who is the user and send / not send the file. However, this does
> not seem to work with
> such big files.
you most likely are running int
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