brady.k — Sat, 07 Aug 2004 02:23:53 +0000

Well if you EMBED (like i originally said) then you don't have to worry about them reading correctly...and I wasn't talking about .hitaccess to protect, read my post.

I gave a working, fine example.

Brian911 — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 22:32:32 +0000

I only had to deal with streaming videos once but in my research I found out that many versions of MS Windows Media Player do not pass a http referrer correctly so I could not use .htaccess to protect them.

However there are many scripts on the web which, according to the producer's description, can even protect video files... a google or hotscripts search should have some results.

brady.k — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 00:31:49 +0000

one thing you can do is block direct linking to the file, and hide the folder (directory) under many other ones...see http://alistapart.com/articles/hotlinking/ to get an idea...it would work in your case. i'll even get you started:

when they click on the link, it goes to a page like mysite.com/play.php?file=fun.asx

and play.php looks like this:

<?php
  header(\"Content-type: text/html\");
  header(\"Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache,
          must-revalidate\");
  header(\"Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0\",
          false);
  header(\"Pragma: no-cache\");

$file = strip_tags($_GET['file'] );
echo \"[embed file here]\";
?>