Posted by Dan Rossi on 03/19/05 21:55

On 20/03/2005, at 5:40 AM, Marek Kilimajer wrote:

>>
>
> If you need only hotlink protection then the current referer checking
> is just enough. Most users will not install referer spoofing software.
>
> But if you need to be 100% sure the videos are streamed through
> affiliate server, you can use tokens - a script at the affiliate
> server will request a token from the streaming server (with
> username/password/clip id etc.). This token will be sent with the link
> to the streaming server. Hope this is clear.
>
>

Hmm its the exact setup with how the video filenames are generated in
the player to prevent hotlinking. I guess I am on my own, my client has
very paranoid customers as they have to pay for the bandwidth. Lets see
how I go. But theoretically we must assume these people dont have php.

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