Re: [PHP] How to secure Flash Video? [Solved?]

2008-01-06 Thread Miles Thompson
Tedd, As Casey noted, there's no totally secure methodolgy, but your's is close enough - everything is wrapped in the Flash movie, so even if the movie is sent on to someone else, that someone has to be approved. We've been doing something similar for several years now, validating against a

[PHP] How to secure Flash Video?

2008-01-04 Thread tedd
Hi gang: Here's the problem. I have a client who has Flash Videos and wishes to rent these Videos out for a certain time period. (No, it's not porn -- shame on you). I have written the code and have NO problems with registering the user, having the user pay, and managing user's time to

Re: [PHP] How to secure Flash Video?

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 12:58 -0500, tedd wrote: Hi gang: Here's the problem. I have a client who has Flash Videos and wishes to rent these Videos out for a certain time period. (No, it's not porn -- shame on you). Bah! I have written the code and have NO problems with registering the

Re: [PHP] How to secure Flash Video?

2008-01-04 Thread tedd
At 1:08 PM -0500 1/4/08, Daniel Brown wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 12:58 PM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, how can I stop that from happening? You could do link expirations with an auto-generated URL to mask the actual location, or could even create a dynamic symlink or copy on the server

Re: [PHP] How to secure Flash Video?

2008-01-04 Thread Daniel Brown
On Jan 4, 2008 1:30 PM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 1:08 PM -0500 1/4/08, Daniel Brown wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 12:58 PM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, how can I stop that from happening? You could do link expirations with an auto-generated URL to mask the actual location, or

Re: [PHP] How to secure Flash Video?

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 13:29 -0500, tedd wrote: At 1:09 PM -0500 1/4/08, Robert Cummings wrote: On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 12:58 -0500, tedd wrote: Hi gang: Here's the problem. I have a client who has Flash Videos and wishes to rent these Videos out for a certain time period. (No, it's

Re: [PHP] How to secure Flash Video?

2008-01-04 Thread tedd
At 1:09 PM -0500 1/4/08, Robert Cummings wrote: On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 12:58 -0500, tedd wrote: Hi gang: Here's the problem. I have a client who has Flash Videos and wishes to rent these Videos out for a certain time period. (No, it's not porn -- shame on you). Bah! I have written the

Re: [PHP] How to secure Flash Video?

2008-01-04 Thread Daniel Brown
On Jan 4, 2008 12:58 PM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gang: Here's the problem. I have a client who has Flash Videos and wishes to rent these Videos out for a certain time period. (No, it's not porn -- shame on you). I stopped reading at this point, due to lack of interest.

Re: [PHP] How to secure Flash Video?

2008-01-04 Thread tedd
At 1:54 PM -0500 1/4/08, Robert Cummings wrote: On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 13:29 -0500, tedd wrote: Rob: I have all of that logic in place now. Then what is the problem? or do you mean you don't ant the same user to view the item while logged in at some point in the future? If so then use a

Re: [PHP] How to secure Flash Video?

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 14:43 -0500, tedd wrote: At 1:54 PM -0500 1/4/08, Robert Cummings wrote: On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 13:29 -0500, tedd wrote: Rob: I have all of that logic in place now. Then what is the problem? or do you mean you don't ant the same user to view the item while

Re: [PHP] How to secure Flash Video?

2008-01-04 Thread Daniel Brown
On Jan 4, 2008 3:12 PM, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's simple, the URL should NOT directly point to the flash. It should point to a PHP wrapper script. The wrapper script then allows you to do any kind of checking necessary to restrict viewing of the video. This can include:

Re: [PHP] How to secure Flash Video?

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 15:27 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 3:12 PM, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's simple, the URL should NOT directly point to the flash. It should point to a PHP wrapper script. The wrapper script then allows you to do any kind of checking

Re: [PHP] How to secure Flash Video? [Solved?]

2008-01-04 Thread tedd
Hi gang: Here's my logic, so what's wrong with it? My sole concern here is to protect a Video from being stolen and/or being viewed remotely while allowing approved users to view it. It is a fact that anything you present to a user is theirs. There's no stopping them from downloading a

Re: [PHP] How to secure Flash Video? [Solved?]

2008-01-04 Thread Casey
On Jan 4, 2008 9:16 PM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gang: Here's my logic, so what's wrong with it? My sole concern here is to protect a Video from being stolen and/or being viewed remotely while allowing approved users to view it. It is a fact that anything you present to a user is