How do I hide urls to my audio files??

bhuether

I have a guitar lessons site and I want to ensure that only registered users can access audio files. And even then, I want the actual url to be hidden from registered users. The way I have it now, is that the links appear as

a href = "bunch of stuff&req=link&exercideid=anumber&mediatype=audioORmidi"

So I can handle the unregistered users fine. But when a registered user clicks the link, I can't figure out how to make it so that the file gets streamed through windows media player (for instance) while hiding the url.

Any ideas? There must be tried and true practices for handling multimedia like this.

-brian

zingbats

The only thing I can think of is to have the URL in a database with a name. So it looks like this...

<?
session_start();
?>
<?php
    /* Doing the relevant stuff */
    $link = mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "password")
        or die("Could not connect");
    mysql_select_db("your_database") or die("Could not select database");

$query = "SELECT * FROM downloads WHERE dl_id = '$id";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die("Query failed");
$foo=mysql_fetch_array($result);

$product=$foo['download_url']

mysql_close($link);
?>
<?
header("Location: " . $product);
?>

Hope that helps.

zingbats

THe table would look like this:

dl_id | URL

1 | http://whatever.com/file.ext