PHP: Hiding a link to binary file for download

[Robert Meyer]

Well, if you bury the page below a .htaccess directory, you can limit access to
anyone that authenticates to get there.  Then you can log the logins or you can
pass the login information to a php script that logs for you.

Cheers!

Bob
--- David Dudek <dudek at buffalo.edu> wrote:
> Here's a question for Mark or anyone else who cares to answer:
> 
> I want to set up a webpage that will allow me to log who is downloading
> certain binary files from a web site.  I intend to do this by having a
> page that a user has to authenticate to, in my case by DCE/Kerberos, so
> that the $REMOTE_USER environment variable is assigned.  I know how to do
> that part.  I might have the user then fill out a form for some info.
> But then (here's the part I don't know about) I want to redirect the user
> to the URL for a binary file download, but I don't want the user to see
> the direct URL.  In other words, I don't want users to be able to bypass
> my form to download the file.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> -- 
> David Thomas Dudek     http://www.buffalo.edu/~dudek/


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