Re: [PHP] Downloding files once

2003-08-14 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote Boaz Yahav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Can you fake a referrer by say, using fsockopen() and sending your own headers? Yes, and in fact there are programs designed to work around this exact (so called) security check. I've seen hosting services use this method of protecting their

RE: [PHP] Downloding files once

2003-08-14 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I'm trying to allow users to download files from my servers. Files can be hundreds of MB in size and sometimes even a few GB. This is a closed section of the site and i would like to allow only members to be able to DL the files. [/snip] Since it is open to members only couldn't you

RE: [PHP] Downloding files once

2003-08-08 Thread Boaz Yahav
Can you fake a referrer by say, using fsockopen() and sending your own headers? -Original Message- From: Curt Zirzow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Downloding files once * Thus wrote Boaz Yahav ([EMAIL

Re: [PHP] Downloding files once

2003-08-07 Thread CPT John W. Holmes
From: Boaz Yahav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you fake a referrer by say, using fsockopen() and sending your own headers? Yep. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Downloding files once

2003-08-06 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote Boaz Yahav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I thought of using a download function that uses headers and readfile() or fread(). This way i can check who is the user and send / not send the file. However, this does not seem to work with such big files. you most likely are running into the