Topic: Preventing a download through a link. (Read 3956 times)

jmcosta · « **on:** February 09, 2006, 12:25:53 pm »

Hi all,

I use my gallery not only for pics but also for some tech documents (PDF) which are located in an album accessible only for a group of qualified users.

One of them has put in an open forum a link to one of these files so it can be downloaded by anyone through "right click, save as…"

Is there any way to prevent this? Not only for this particular file, but for not public albums in general.

TIA,

JM

Nibbler · « **Reply #1 on:** February 09, 2006, 02:52:16 pm »

Google for hotlink protection.

jmcosta · « **Reply #2 on:** February 09, 2006, 09:22:42 pm »

Hi Nibbler,

Many thanks.
I use cPanel and already knew the Hotlink Protection feature.

The problem is that the open forum I mentioned is also running in my site, and I want to display images in the forum by linking to Coppermine, but also want to avoid the unathorised access to pdf files.

Kind of deadlock...

Regards,

JM

Nibbler · « **Reply #3 on:** February 09, 2006, 09:41:38 pm »

Limit the hotlink protection to .pdf files then.

jmcosta · « **Reply #4 on:** February 09, 2006, 10:40:35 pm »

OK

Thanks. It works.

JM

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