I'm starting a new site soon that has many files available for download. I'm going use a php script to get the files (This helps me to count the downloads and hide the file location). However, the file location becomes visible when a visitor is downloading the file (This is more of a problem in Netscape 6, because it gives the full file path - ex: http://www.domain.com/files/zips, whereas IE just lists the server - ex: domain.com.). To prevent hotlinking, I modified my .htaccess file in my downloads directory to only allow referrals from my domain. This works well and great, but my problem lies with the more persistant breed of leeches. In the past, I have actually had people hotlink to me with little notes that tell their visitors to right-click, 'save as', or to copy & paste the url into their browsers. I don't know much about many programming languages, but maybe somebody even has a script that accomplishes this also? Anyway, I don't want this to happen to my site this time around. Does anybody know of a way I can hide the file's real location while it is being download? If this is not possible, can I at least scramble/randomize a fake location or something? Any help would be greatly appreciated, and my apologies in advance if this is a dumb question.
. I don't know much about many programming languages, but maybe somebody even has a script that accomplishes this also? Anyway, I don't want this to happen to my site this time around. Does anybody know of a way I can hide the file's real location while it is being download? If this is not possible, can I at least scramble/randomize a fake location or something
? Any help would be greatly appreciated, and my apologies in advance if this is a dumb question
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