Posted by JDS on 06/09/05 05:31

On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:18:25 +0000, diablo wrote:

> I want to offer a download to people for a certain amount of time - after
> the link expires.
>
> basically the setup is that they buy an ebook and receive an email with a
> link to download - but the link should only be valid for a week.
>
> anyway to do that?

If you are using Apache, you can set this up using mod_rewrite.

See:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

Specifically the section titled "Time-Dependent Rewriting"

You can put the Rewriting directives in a .htaccess file in the same
directory on the server where the file(s) to which you wish to control
access.

later...

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