[ILUG] block by referrer

[Rob Hill]

kevin lyda wrote:

> 
> no, but a cgi (or similar) script might work:
> 
> lets say a page has this structure:
> 
>    foo.html (contains foo.mp3)
> 
> foo.html could become foo.cgi that updates a file with a key, and the
> mp3 link could become foo.mp3.cgi?key.  when that link gets followed
> the foo.mp3.cgi link could remove the key and deliver the mp3 file.
> if the key passed to the foo.mp3.cgi file was invalid, it would fail.
> 

If I was going the cgi route, the cgi would just check the referrer, and give out the file based on that (much easier) but i was hoping that there would be an easier (apache) method, as the site's not
mine, and I would have to write the cgi, as the person involved er......couldn't.


> i'm sure there are more efficient varients on the theme (instead of a
> key in a file, it could be a file in a directory; some sort of server
> side includes could be used (shtml?), etc.), but that's the general
> solution that springs to mind.


hang on - is there a shtml (parsed html)option?
if env_referer = http://ripped/off/site
print "f**k off"

(my parsed html's not up to par)

> 
> less exact would be to change the name of the mp3 file every few
> hours with a cron job and update the html file with the correct name.
> sed is your friend here.
> 
was just considering that, actually - less pain involved for me anyway ;o)

thanks kevin

rob