Posted by Dan Rossi on 08/29/05 15:00

I have just discovered on closer debugging, the windows media plugin is
loading the file twice, i can see the stop button flicker twice and i
made an error log and the word loaded shows up twice, would this be
causing an issue with the session ?

On 29/08/2005, at 5:20 PM, Dan Rossi wrote:

> Hi there I am trying to use php to output an asx playlist but depends
> on a special hash in the url to prevent hotlinking. I am using a
> session to store a generated token when generating the url to display
> in an embedded player. The token is added in the filename and I am
> using rewrite rules to load another php script which does a check of
> the hash in the querystring with the token stored in the session.
> However its having unexpected results. When i add the check for the
> session token the media player either doesnt player in PC or outputs
> playlist format not recognised in Mac. If i do a check for the hash
> only its ok. Here is an example
>
> if ($_GET['h'] && $_GET['filename'] && $this->hash) {
>
> $file =
> WMSERVER.Feeds_Hotlink_Check::strip_paths($_GET['filename']);
> $this->filename = preg_replace('/stream/','wmv',$file);
> $this->tpl->compile('playlist.html');
> header("Content-Type: video/x-ms-wmv");
> die(trim($this->tpl->outputObject($this)));
> }
>
> breaks with this
>
> if ($_GET['h'] && $_GET['filename'] && $this->token) {
>
> $file =
> WMSERVER.Feeds_Hotlink_Check::strip_paths($_GET['filename']);
> $this->filename = preg_replace('/stream/','wmv',$file);
> $this->tpl->compile('playlist.html');
> header("Content-Type: video/x-ms-wmv");
> die(trim($this->tpl->outputObject($this)));
> }
>
> ideally i want it to look like
>
> if ($_GET['h'] && $_GET['filename'] &&
> (strcmp($this->token,$this->hash)==0)) {
>
> $file =
> WMSERVER.Feeds_Hotlink_Check::strip_paths($_GET['filename']);
> $this->filename = preg_replace('/stream/','wmv',$file);
> $this->tpl->compile('playlist.html');
> header("Content-Type: video/x-ms-wmv");
> die(trim($this->tpl->outputObject($this)));
> }
>
>
> they are being set earlier in the script like so
>
> $this->token = trim($_SESSION['token']);
> $this->hash = trim($_GET['h']);
>
> any ideas ?
>
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