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"Can you protect your uploaded files?"

You know when you upload say audio to your web space. Anyone can download them if they type in yourdomain.com/file.mp3. Is there a way of stopping this? I've only know of one way to web protect a file and that was a feature of a single host.

Any help would be great :)

Kind of off subject but still round abouts, is the 500 internal server error the result of when the server goes down? Is is then worth makin an error document for it?

Marzman wrote:
> I've found out you can protect files on a web page by using
> javascript. I'm a lot more happy with this (rather than .htaccess)
> but I was just wondering if the users browser does not support
> javascript would the protection e useless?

Well it'll depend upon your javascript of course and what its doing but generally yes, if you're relying on javascript to do something and the user has it turned off then you've no longer got that functionality.

Btw, just had a read of your previous posts, htaccess is still the best way to cope with this (if your host supports it). The general thing you're looking to prevent is called hotlinking. The most common use is to stop people linking to images (from outside of the site) but you could equally use it for what you're doing. If you google for "hotlinking htaccess" you'll find lots of nice solutions, nothing to do with user logins or anything.

I've found out you can protect files on a web page by using javascript. I'm a lot more happy with this (rather than .htaccess) but I was just wondering if the users browser does not support javascript would the protection e useless?

Does anyone know how .htaccess effects wap? Ie: Does .htaccess just protect files from the URL way (domain.com/file).

Using .htaccess sounds good but I don't think it's right for this case. I want to stop people from being able to download my files by domain.com/file but still allow access via wap where a wml file could link to afile and still grant a download.

Am I making sense :I?
I just want people not to be able download the wml file, find out the name of the file it's linked to and then use that name to download the content. That's why I doubt a login feature using .htaccess will be of much use.

Any ideas

phi11ip wrote:
> ...Also if it's Freeola then .htaccess won't work either,
> it'll just break your webspace.

We've been there before: [URL]http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk/display_messages.php?threadid=122398&forumid=206[/URL]

Pandaemonium wrote:
> Marzman wrote:
> Darn, they don't. Any other way?
>
> Isn't .htaccess universal? I'm sure that would protect them.

If it's Windows then it won't work, security with Windows is horrible. Also if it's Freeola then .htaccess won't work either, it'll just break your webspace.

Slightly off topic, but can I protect files I write onto a CD?

Marzman wrote:
> Darn, they don't. Any other way?

Isn't .htaccess universal? I'm sure that would protect them.

What server are they running?