With some tweaking the following will work: client.srv.com has the file listings, makes an MD5 of the filename plus a salt (random string, lets call it 123456) and writes the MD5 to the disk of client.srv.com as /<filename>-123456.txt - then makes a request to dload.srv.com as /dl.php/<filename>/salt dload.srv.com/dl.php makes a request for the contents of client.srv.com/<filename>-salt.txt and checks that the MD5 of <filename> and salt match what was returned, if so serve the requested file through php with the correct header('Content-...') details. Use a cron job on client.srv.com to clear out the tmp files. -Tig --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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