You can't hide URL requests, but you could use a proxy script to mask
the FLV names.
The problem is that like YouTube's get_video.php script, you can still
call this from anywhere. YouTube makes it a bit harder by adding on a
variable called "t" that seems to change per video called - it's
probably linked to your session or similar. Have a look at the sequence
of headers when you load a YouTube page and you will see what I mean.
It's a barrier to many, but is easily circumvented - demonstrated by the
fact the people can play YouTube FLV's on their own site without the
player, etc. - although this is not guaranteed to work and is often
flaky, it's a good example.
Anyway, google for YouTube FLV proxy or something similar for code examples.
Glen
Dave Watts wrote:
hey all I was wondering what is a pretty standard way to call
an FLV so its actually path isn't transparent. Like I want to call...
http://www.mysite.com/myFLV.flv but I don't want people to be
able to see the URL in service capture like that. I want it
to be more like http://www.mysite.com/something_encrypted.
Sorry i'm not sure how to say what i am looking to do but I
hope this makes sense! any direction on the standard for
doing something like this would be great! thanks!
There is no standard for doing something like this, because it's not
possible. You can't hide URLs requested by the client from network
monitoring. You can require authentication for specific URLs, however, using
either your web server or your application server. If these FLVs are being
streamed through Flash Media Server, it provides authentication
functionality. If they're static FLV files, you can enable authentication on
your web server, or serve the files through an application server like
ColdFusion.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
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