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Has anyone found a good anti-leach cgi script that works on Freeola?
Cheers,
Ben
Cheers,
Ben
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Do .htaccess files really crash the webspace server? That's one messed up server if it does. Surely if it's set up to not function .htaccess files, then it would just ignore the .htaccess files. I did try putting one in my webspace, and all I got was a 500 Internal Server Error, which I thought was a reasonable response, did it really crash the machine? So much for using Linux servers cos they're super reliable...
Anyway, on the anti-leech, you could write your own script, but I'm not sure how you'd want it to function. All I could think of might be giving each file a random name, and having a database (eg. file 1 = oihsdf08621ojg.mpg) to look up the file you want. But then the user would have a crappily names file. I suppose having them in a hidden directory, so that only the script knows where the directory is would work, but the only way I know of making a download start is by using print "location:file.mpg" but I think this would reveal the location of the directory. You could mess the 'thieves' about by changing the directory name (and correspondingly the cgi file so it references the right directory) to something random each day or week, so they'd have to update their links that often and would eventually get bored with it.
Also, it's easy to find if the referring link is from your domain, by using the ENV{'HTTP_REFERRER'} (I think) variable and searching the string for your domain name, or pattern matching it.
Just some ideas...
Rikki
Anyway, on the anti-leech, you could write your own script, but I'm not sure how you'd want it to function. All I could think of might be giving each file a random name, and having a database (eg. file 1 = oihsdf08621ojg.mpg) to look up the file you want. But then the user would have a crappily names file. I suppose having them in a hidden directory, so that only the script knows where the directory is would work, but the only way I know of making a download start is by using print "location:file.mpg" but I think this would reveal the location of the directory. You could mess the 'thieves' about by changing the directory name (and correspondingly the cgi file so it references the right directory) to something random each day or week, so they'd have to update their links that often and would eventually get bored with it.
Also, it's easy to find if the referring link is from your domain, by using the ENV{'HTTP_REFERRER'} (I think) variable and searching the string for your domain name, or pattern matching it.
Just some ideas...
Rikki
It's possible but all downloads would have to be routed through the script and it's unlikely they would. I think you'd have to use a .htaccess file but they crash the Freeola webspace servers.
But, and I've got to ask, why do you care?
But, and I've got to ask, why do you care?
How do you mean by "anti-leach"?
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