mask/hide file download url

Paul_Ferrie

Morning guys,

I've been working on a shopping cart to sell flash source files.

All is working fine apart from the last vital part 'The download of purchased files'

At present when the user purchase's a file they are sent an email with the link to the file.

The link is to a php script. The purchase id and the file id are sent along the link.
A check is done to see if the id's are valid and if they are then get the file url.

This is were i am stuck. As soon as the validation is complete the file url is passed to the header:

header("location:".$dlsUrl);

This open a broswer page displaying the full path to the file. Anyone with half a clue could access the rest of my file pretty easily.

Does anyone know of a better way of doing this so that the file url is masked?

Thanks
Paul

olaf

check the manual for "fopen" , "fread", "fclose" or check this snippet:

http://www.finalwebsites.com/snippets.php?id=4

Paul_Ferrie

Cheers i got it sorted


header("Pragma: public"); 
header("Expires: 0"); 
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"); 
header("Cache-Control: private",false); 
header("Content-Type: application/zip"); // you can put here MIME type of your file 
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"" . basename($dlsUrl) . "\";" ); 
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); 
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($dlsUrl)); 
set_time_limit(0); 
readfile("$dlsUrl");

Got this off one of the other forums.

Thanks again