Hiding a link to binary file for download

[David Dudek]

Okay, but then won't they just bookmark that link and get the file while
bypassing the form?

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David Thomas Dudek     http://www.buffalo.edu/~dudek/

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Mark Musone wrote:

> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:33:00 -0400
> From: Mark Musone <mmusone at shatterit.com>
> Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: RE: Hiding a link to binary file for download
>
> Umm...well, it's really whatever page you want it to be..
> Just put the php code in the page you want the person to think they are
> downloading from..
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
> David Dudek
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:33 PM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: RE: Hiding a link to binary file for download
>
> Thanks!  Would this page be the same one that they arrive to AFTER they
> fill out the form?
>
> --
> David Thomas Dudek     http://www.buffalo.edu/~dudek/
>
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Mark Musone wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:57:10 -0400
> > From: Mark Musone <mmusone at shatterit.com>
> > Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
> > To: nflug at nflug.org
> > Subject: RE: Hiding a link to binary file for download
> >
> > This is a fairly common use of php.
> >
> > What you'll want to do is use a combination of fopen(), to open the
> > file,
> > And then fpassthru(), which outputs the file to the users browser..
> >
> > The user thinks they are accessing http://www.domain.com/myscript.php
> >
> >
> > But in myscript.php, it has
> >
> > <?php
> >
> > $fp=fopen("myfile");
> > fpassthru($fp)
> > ?>
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf
> Of
> > David Dudek
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:13 AM
> > To: nflug at nflug.org
> > Subject: PHP: Hiding a link to binary file for download
> >
> > 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?
> >
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