just cloaking download pages

[quebecostarica]

Hi!

I just need this: to hide links for downloading files.

No registration needed by customer. I just want to paste a link that will able to download one file at a time, but I want to hide the link to avoid people copy/paste the link.

Example:

mysite.com/folder1/xyz.pdf

will become:

mysite.com/u6ljfiere5wjxui45f4df2tre8_whatever

Thanks

Roger Pilon, Librarian
Internet Marketing Library (http://www.internet-marketing-library.org)

[admin]

Hi Roger,

It is possible. But if files are too big it will be server intensive and your host won't be happy.

How big are the files?

[quebecostarica]

Hi Roger,

It is possible. But if files are too big it will be server intensive and your host won't be happy.

How big are the files?
Gee! I was surprised to get an answer so fast!

Thanks

The Internet Marketing Library will be just that: a library, a public one. I know there will be a lot of dowloads but I have a good hosting company and bandwith should not be a problem.

I nevertheless checked the size of 30 files ( I got hundreds of them):

1) 29 of them were 300/350 KB or less in size
2) 1 is 332 MB

So if I understood well I can:

1) hide the real path of any downloads
2) hidejacking folders not possible
3) no sign in necessary

But, even if the script add strings to hide the real path, can a user copy it and send it to somebody else?

Thanks

Roger Pilon, Librarian
Internet Marketing Library (http://www.internet-marketing-library.org)

[admin]

1) 29 of them were 300/350 KB or less in size
2) 1 is 332 MB

332 MB is definitely a no no. But around 300 KB is OK.


So if I understood well I can:

1) hide the real path of any downloads
2) hidejacking folders not possible
3) no sign in necessary

1) yes
2) It will work this way: If you keep a page like yoursite.com/downloads/index.html and keep all your download on it or another html file in that folder. The download links are cloacked by the script. They cannot see the actual path. You cannot keep files outside of 'downloads' folder.
3) yes.


But, even if the script add strings to hide the real path, can a user copy it and send it to somebody else?

No. It won't work after certain time on another computer. But it will work on the same computer until the browser is closed.

But you have to remember:
You need to keep all downloads in a folder under 'downloads' folder. As you don't want signing in, you need to keep this folder name something complicated.