André Warnier wrote: > J. Bakshi wrote: >> Eric Covener wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:16 AM, J. Bakshi <joydeep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear list, >>>> >>>> I have a .htaccess ( copied from the some tutorials available in >>>> internet ) to disable site grabbers like wget, curl, httrack >>>> etc....... >>>> and I have tested that these tools are not able to download anything >>>> from my site. nice so far. But If I put the mp3 link available at my >>>> site directly in the browser then browser download the mp3. it is also >>>> true for images. How can I prevent this ? >>>> >>>> >>> You could use mod_rewrite to make sure the referer is set to something >>> you expect, but it's still going to ultimately be downloadable. >>> >>> >> Please suggest what else I can do. >> Please >> > You could replace the links to the mp3 files by a button or a link, > which when clicked opens another window where the user needs to input > something before the download starts. The input is often some kind of > image of a text, easily read by humans but not by machines. There is > a name for that kind of thing, but I don't recall it right now. Actually I have no such button to make download available. there is a flash plugin which plays the mp3 online. But the source of the page shows the link and if you place the link in the browser the browser downloads it. I like to stop it. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server > Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx