RE: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

2002-06-18 Thread John Holmes
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 5:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] How do I hide download link ... > > Hi, if using the header command for attaching a file really prevents the > user from seeing the actual download link, is it really all that

RE: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

2002-06-18 Thread Martin Towell
ansfer-Encoding: binary"); Header("File-Length: $fsize"); Header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$fname"); echo $buff; -Original Message- From: Lazor, Ed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 8:59 AM To: 'Martin Towell

RE: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

2002-06-18 Thread Martin Towell
#x27;s site to see what hidden things I can find :) But it's up to you where you ultimately put it -Original Message- From: Fargo Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 7:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

RE: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

2002-06-18 Thread Lazor, Ed
x27;Fargo Lee'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PHP] How do I hide download link ... > > > Have a page that checks the user's authentication > > if they're "invalid" then display an error msg and exit the script > > otherwise, send the header comm

Re: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

2002-06-18 Thread Fargo Lee
ependent on the > types > > of files your offering, but you should get the idea. > > > > Adapt to your needs, but this is the basics of it. Check for a valid > > session, if it exists, send appropriate headers and use passthru() to send > > the file. (you can us

Re: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

2002-06-18 Thread Fargo Lee
Hi, if using the header command for attaching a file really prevents the user from seeing the actual download link, is it really all that important that the file is read from behind the document root if it is in a very hard to guess directory? "Martin Towell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message

Re: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

2002-06-18 Thread Fargo Lee
ffering, but you should get the idea. > > Adapt to your needs, but this is the basics of it. Check for a valid > session, if it exists, send appropriate headers and use passthru() to send > the file. (you can use file(), fopen(), whatever, as long as you send the > content of the file af

Re: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

2002-06-18 Thread Justin French
on 19/06/02 12:27 AM, 1LT John W. Holmes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I thought we answered this question already! Hehe yup -- a different thread that I started :) Justin French -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

2002-06-18 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
content of the file after the headers...). If session doesn't match up, send an HTML page. Hopefully this thread will die now... ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: "Nathan Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Fargo Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:

Re: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

2002-06-18 Thread Nathan Taylor
ssage- > From: Nathan Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 18 June 2002 11:33 AM > To: Bret L Conard; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] How do I hide download link ... > > > > if (!session_is_registered("SESSION")){ > > print (&qu

RE: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

2002-06-18 Thread Brian McGarvie
e 2002 11:33 AM > To: Bret L Conard; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] How do I hide download link ... > > > > if (!session_is_registered("SESSION")){ > > print ("You must Log-In to access this page\n"); > > print (&qu

Re: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

2002-06-18 Thread Nathan Taylor
physical file. If a user for some reason desires to leak the actual link then there could be a problem. This is why he probably should change the physical file data. - Original Message - From: "Bret L Conard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

2002-06-18 Thread Bret L Conard
Start a session on the sign in page, and check for the session before displaying the page with the link. The it does not matter if the link page URL is distributed. In my situation; 1. Sign in page goes to a validation script. 2. Check for form fields. (1st of Nested loops) if (isset($form

Re: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

2002-06-18 Thread Nathan Taylor
I don't believe it is possible to hide the physical link but it is plausibly easy enough to write a script that randomly changes the file name and location. Here's some psuedo code to get you started: //Step 1: Locate the file $query = "select * from file_locations where file_name='secure.zip'";

Re: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

2002-06-18 Thread Nathan Taylor
- Original Message - From: "Fargo Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 4:14 PM Subject: [PHP] How do I hide download link ... > Hi, my customers go through a password authentication to access a link on my > site to download a file. I want to pr