I need help with something called Download Protector

Junior WebHelper Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 6

Here is the original code=

Code:

<?php

$ADMIN[defaulturl] = "http://phpscriptcenter.com";

$okaysites = array("http://phpscriptcenter.com","http://www.phpscriptcenter.com");

$ADMIN[url_1] = "http://www.phpscriptcenter.com/download.php3?product=";
$ADMIN[url_2] = "http://downloads.com";
$ADMIN[url_3] = "http://downloads.com/new";

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

$reffer = $HTTP_REFERER;
if($reffer) {
$yes = 0;
while(list($domain, $subarray) = each($okaysites)) {
if (ereg("$reffer",$subarray)) {
$yes = 1;
}
}
$theu = "url"."_"."$site";
if ($ADMIN[$theu] AND $yes == 1) {
header("Location: $ADMIN[$theu]/$file");
} else {
header("Location: $ADMIN[defaulturl]");
}
} else {
header("Location: $ADMIN[defaulturl]");
}

?>

And this is what the read me file says=

1, Open download.php and edit these 3 varibles

$ADMIN[defaulturl] = It will redirect people to this url if they are trying to link to your downloads off there site
@okaysites = sites which can download files off your site
$ADMIN[url_1] = A location to a download folder with some downloads in it

(to add more download locations just put on a new line in the script)
$ADMIN[url_4] = "http://site.com";
$ADMIN[url_5] = "http://site.com";
$ADMIN[url_6] = "http://site.com";
and keep going up a number for as many as you want

2, Upload the script to your website

3, Now just link to the download you want by doing http://yoursite.com/download.php?site=1&file=thefile.zip
On that link it has ( site=1 ) that means it calls the download location ( $url_1 )
just change it to what you want so it calls the correct folder

It looks simple but it doesnt seem to work can anyone try it and give me to code after your done Question

Junior WebHelper Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 6

Or maybe someone knows another script that does the same thing that i can download.?

Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2002 7:43 am (21 years, 10 months ago)

Here is the solution for the problem:

1) dont give ending / in URLs

2) either have http://yoursite.com as well as http://www.yoursite.com ,.....
or simply don't give "http://" that is just yoursite.com or subdomain.yoursite.com
if you give yoursite.com then *yoursite.com* will match and be a correct referer. that is all subdomain download.yoursite.com, help.yoursite.com etc. while subdomain.yoursite.com with restrict to *subdomain.yoursite.com* .

Junior WebHelper Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 6

Right now i have my download.php file like following=

$ADMIN[defaulturl] = "http://www.kinggamers.com";

$okaysites = array("66.216.30.206","http://kinggamers.com","http://www.kinggamers.com");

$ADMIN[url_1] = "http://www.kinggamers.com/sc/files";
$ADMIN[url_2] = "";
$ADMIN[url_3] = "";

and how i have it now doesnt work it just forwards to http://www.kinggamers.com

Junior WebHelper Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 6

Im using the following code for the link thats on my website

http://www.kinggamers.com/download.php?site=1&file=filename.zip

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2002 8:05 am (21 years, 10 months ago)

use

echo $HTTP_REFERER;

to see if it gives the correct referer. some hosts like on F2S it was $HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR

you might be behind a proxy etc. which many times dont give out the referer tags.

you can also try using eregi instead of ereg, that way it will ignore the case.

Junior WebHelper Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 6

can u give me an example because im not good with php. or can u just change the code to what u think would work and just post it up?

Junior WebHelper Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 6

Does anyone know of a script that does the same thing but actually works?? i want it so it doesnt show the url to a file so people cant link files off my website to theirs. can anyone help me?

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

The URL will always be visible (if it isn't then people can't access the file), but you can stop people from linking to them from other sites. Check out the scripts at Hotscripts.com.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Quote:

There is something you can do (similar to the trick we're using for images at 4WebHelp, except it would work for other files), but it requires Apache of course.

What trick that you are using for 4webhelp images???

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Andrew, please don't edit my posts in order to reply to them Smile

Here's the code:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://4webhelp.net/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.4webhelp.net/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.4webhelp.net.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://search.atomz.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|GIF|jpg|JPG)$ http://www.4webhelp.net/images/404.gif [R]

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Yep. Unless the referrer is one of those, it will display an X, or sometimes this image: