Thanks a lot,
Alan Chaney wrote: > > My understanding is that you want your users to be able to *view* a > streaming file but not download it to their file system? > > Unfortunately there is no way to absolutely prevent this happening, > because the data of the file MUST be transferred from the server to the > browser to allow the end user to watch it. > > There is no mechanism in tomcat or any other web server which can > control what the user does with data when they have acutally got it in > their browser. > > The best thing that you can do is to try and avoid having the download > link actually appear in the web page. This can be done by for example > having a Flash player to play the video and writing ActionScript to make > a specific request to your server using some kind of obfuscated URL. Of > course, this mechanism will not stop someone with any understanding of > HTTP and HTML from discovering the correct URL to use, but it will stop > people just casually right-clicking on a link and downloading it. > > The only other alternative is to employ some kind of DRM system, but I > guess you don't want to go that way. > > HTH > > Alan Chaney > > > > bperquku wrote: >> thank you for your reply, >> Actually my webapp uses a db authentication, but even registered users >> will >> not have to download videos, only to see them. >> >> thnx. >> >> >> >> Александър Л. Димитров wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Quoth bperquku: >>>> Hi, >>>> I installed Tomcat 6.0. I have sample webapp that streams's video >>>> content. >>>> Is it possible somke how to protect video from downloading >>> Simplest suggestion: why don't you just let the webapp authenticate the >>> user >>> against some user DB? If security isn't a concern there are even simpler >>> methods >>> (like, md5-hash the password and store it locally). >>> Query for it with a JS input dialog or an http form. If it's supposed to >>> be very >>> secure, use SSL on top. >>> >>> Aleks >>> >>> >>> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Streaming-Video-Media-tp17185149p17186923.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
