It's a fairly standard authentication problem. I would solve it by using sessions. In the page and video stream start by checking for an authenticated flag in the session array. If the flag is present, display the content. If not, show a login page. When they login, set the authenticated flag and redirect them back to their original page. As you want to have people copy and paste the url, make sure that you set the use_only_cookies flag in the php config. Otherwise the session id may be part of the URL and defeat your authentication. David Gentil de Bortoli Júnior wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, guys. > > I have a little problem here and I would like to know if you > have any idea about how to handle it. > > I have an URL which is streaming a live TV channel and I need to > implement, using PHP, some kind of validation to allow that only > one person (login) watch it. I mean, multiple logins are not allowed. > > So far, so good. > > My problem is that the URL can be copied and pasted. I'm trying to > figure it out how to hide and/or protect this URL to permit only > logged in people can see the streaming. > > Do you have any idea? > > Thanks in advance and excuse me about my English. > > - -- > Gentil de Bortoli Júnior > Chave GPG: http://gentil.bortoli.com.br/gpg > > "There Is No Gene For The Human Spirit" > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEEDUDR/xCJbtXupkRAnp8AJsHqC9QKWGEY/UEYf7eexyO719msACdEJJ1 > 93swUZjs1RZlpgmDpotXh5k= > =/Mqa > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
