Secure streaming real audio

[crews]

I am looking for a way to allow logged in users to have access to some real audio file but not allow them to give out the url to the file and let just anyone listen.

Though about creating symbolic links that are dynamic and only exist while the user is logged in. But I know there has to a better way though php to do what I want.
Thanks

Eric Crews

[Anon]

well, what i do is use mod_rewrite, to pass all URL requests through a common script.

and in that script i do all the login stuff and determine if they are requesting a file or a page, and if it is a file and they are logged in, and they have the rights to view it (you'll probably need to store security writes in a database table for ALL files), i send the right headers and then the file.

this is fairly involved, and requires basically rewriting apache, but in the end you have a kick ass website that you control all the user accounts and everything they can and can't see.

[crews]

I have security and login stuff that I can limit the acces to pages. What I don't know what to do is give the logged in user a link to a file to down load but make it so they can't give out that link to friends and bypass my login and security stuff.

Thanks

Eric

[Anon]

i told you how to do it my previous post. that is the only way other than creating apache user accounts and making directories only viewable by certain groups.

then you would be maintaining 2 users tables and everything would be a mess.