RE: [us...@httpd] How to prevent a site to be grabbed ?

2009-03-27 Thread Richard Peacock
.. but surely even if he uses this one-time method then the person who clicks the link for the mp3 file will still get the file? albeit with added server load as it is copied first then deleted - not to mention the additional script work that would be needed? Ultimately, there is no way to

Re: [us...@httpd] How to prevent a site to be grabbed ?

2009-03-27 Thread Mark H. Wood
Perhaps the closest analogy is with a document that must be shown to someone (say, a secret agent) but which he may not copy or carry away. You wouldn't do this by mail, which is roughly what an HTTP server represents. The agent is put in a room. An armed guard brings the document, waits while

Re: [us...@httpd] How to prevent a site to be grabbed ?

2009-03-27 Thread Krist van Besien
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Mark H. Wood mw...@iupui.edu wrote: If you must control how the file is used, you must arrange that only software provided by you is able to make it usable, and that that software has only the functions you specify.  This reduces the problem from impossible to

Re: [us...@httpd] How to prevent a site to be grabbed ?

2009-03-26 Thread Krist van Besien
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:57 AM, J. Bakshi joyd...@infoservices.in wrote: So I'm looking a way to prevent my site to be grabbed. Could any one suggest any measure in apache or .htaccess ? Don't connect your site to the internet. That will prevent is from being grabbed. Krist --

Re: [us...@httpd] How to prevent a site to be grabbed ?

2009-03-26 Thread Brian Mearns
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Richard Peacock richard.peac...@minorplanet.com wrote: Lol, good answer Krist! Although many people have tried to prevent things like right-click and grabbing of files from their websites, they are all bypassable in one way or another ;) -Original

Re: [us...@httpd] How to prevent a site to be grabbed ?

2009-03-26 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Password-protect it, and don't give the password to anyone. :-) If someone sees a page from your site, that page was already downloaded to the visitor's computer, and a visitor can create a program that download all the pages which he can access using a browser. Octavian - Original

Re: [us...@httpd] How to prevent a site to be grabbed ?

2009-03-26 Thread Jonathan Zuckerman
Use a one-time pad. Every URL to an mp3 is not an actual resource, it's a link that is generated when the user indicates a desire to download the mp3, and the mp3 is then copied from a protected place to a public place. After that link is accessed one time, a script is run which outputs the mp3

Re: [us...@httpd] How to prevent a site to be grabbed ?

2009-03-26 Thread Octavian Râsnita
Ok, and what happends if not a browser requests that mp3 file, but a custom made program that download all the files? Octavian - Original Message - From: Jonathan Zuckerman j.zucker...@gmail.com To: users@httpd.apache.org Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:06 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [us...@httpd] How to prevent a site to be grabbed ?

2009-03-26 Thread Brian Mearns
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Octavian Râsnita orasn...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, and what happends if not a browser requests that mp3 file, but a custom made program that download all the files? Octavian - Original Message - From: Jonathan Zuckerman j.zucker...@gmail.com To: