[thelist] Preventing direct access while allowing PHP script access

Info@internetvraagbaak.nl info at internetvraagbaak.nl
Mon Mar 27 05:25:32 CST 2006


Hi

Sorry i cannot point you to exact information on this but when you want to 
go a step further then hotlicking
you should talk to a system administrator. they should be able to set 
permission ( not as easy as chmodding ;-) ) in a way that
cannot accept the swf directly.

Jeroen
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From: "minty freshness" <list.terrine at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 1:10 PM
Subject: [thelist] Preventing direct access while allowing PHP script access


> Hello Listoids,
>
> I have a bunch of SWF files, just say at "http://www.domain.com/swf/".
> Now, I want my PHP script, eg, something like
> "http://www.domain.com/swf_me_up.php?filename=someswf" to be able to
> access these, obviously. However, I want to prevent people from simply
> typing in something like "http://www.domain.com/swf/someswf.swf" and
> accessing it directly (mainly because I want to extract money from
> them first, *rubs mercenarious hands*).
>
> I would've thought this would be quite a common desire, but I can't
> seem to find any ideas on how to achieve it. Plenty of examples of how
> to prevent "hotlinking", but evidently while this also concerns me,
> it's HTTP requests from my *own* domain that's the worry at the
> moment!
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated!
>
> Cheers and thanks.
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