If your flash object plays the mp3, it needs to download it. So, if it needs to download it, you cannot prevent its download.
What you should try to do to make hard to download your mp3 files is to create an CGI or PHP script which downloads the file, and another which "authorizes" the download, and make your flash object loads the script which "authorizes" run first. But it's not a efficient way, because somebody should run a proxy to see the HTTP requests, and detect the "authorizer" script. []'s 2009/3/20 Brian Mearns <mearn...@gmail.com> > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:53 AM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > > J. Bakshi wrote: > >> > >> Eric Covener wrote: > >>> > >>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:16 AM, J. Bakshi <joyd...@infoservices.in> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> Dear list, > >>>> > >>>> I have a .htaccess ( copied from the some tutorials available in > >>>> internet ) to disable site grabbers like wget, curl, httrack > etc....... > >>>> and I have tested that these tools are not able to download anything > >>>> from my site. nice so far. But If I put the mp3 link available at my > >>>> site directly in the browser then browser download the mp3. it is also > >>>> true for images. How can I prevent this ? > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> You could use mod_rewrite to make sure the referer is set to something > >>> you expect, but it's still going to ultimately be downloadable. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> Please suggest what else I can do. > >> Please > >> > > You could replace the links to the mp3 files by a button or a link, which > > when clicked opens another window where the user needs to input something > > before the download starts. The input is often some kind of image of a > > text, easily read by humans but not by machines. There is a name for > that > > kind of thing, but I don't recall it right now. > > You could not put links to mp3s on your site. > > I'm not really clear what you're trying to do: anything you put on > your site is fair game to be downloaded. If you want, you can set up > authentication so that a username and password are required to access > the file. If you're trying to stop bots from getting it, Mark's > suggestion of using a CAPTCHA is your best bet. > > Are you just trying to make it so that the flash player can play the > file, but people can't download it? I'm not sure how the flash player > works: if the file can be embedded directly into the flash then > there's no need to have a link to the file on your site, but if the > flash player has to fetch it from your site over the web, that it will > inherently need to be made available for download. An important thing > to keep in mind, though, is that anything that's playing on a person's > computer can easily be recorded, so just because they can't download > the file doesn't mean they can't just play it and record it. Also, if > you're trying to do this to protect yourself from copyright laws, I > wouldn't be too confident that you're safe if you're letting people > listen to the music at all just because you're trying to prevent them > from downloading it. > > So try to be more specific about what you're trying to achieve, and > I'm sure someone here can come up with a solution, if there is one. > > -Brian > > -- > Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: > Key Id: 0x3AA70848 > Available from: http://pgp.mit.edu/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
