Posted by Dan Rossi on 08/29/05 17:09

On 29/08/2005, at 10:00 PM, Dan Rossi wrote:

> 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 ?

Ok its quite obvious I just discovered the session is being created
again when the file is loaded from the windows media plugin therefore
token variable is not there. Any ideas what could have been doing this
? I logged two different sess id's being created.

>
> 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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