--On 29 June 2012 15:08:44 +0100 Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You have talked about perl and mod_perl. I understand that you can override htaccess to use a self-made bit of Perl code that process it and check the token. Is this right?You don't need to override htaccess. Here's a piece of perl found through a random google search to send a file: http://rasterweb.net/raster/code/sendfile.html You'll need to change the header as appropriate. Drop that in as a CGI script (there are a million examples of perl CGI howtos). It would be more efficient if it used sendfile. All you need to do is modify that perl CGI script to check the GET parameters. My idea was simply to use parameters for your video name, the time, the user, and perhaps a random nonce, and also pass a hash of those. So, CGI document is here: http://perldoc.perl.org/CGI.html and you might want to do something like (completely untested):
Well, guess what, I needed to do this myself. So for anyone else who wants to do it, see: http://blog.alex.org.uk/2012/08/09/reliable-and-trackable-download-servers/ -- Alex Bligh --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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