Hi,

I've created a login page that restricts people viewing a download page if they are not logged in. On the restricted page will be links to documents.

What I want to do is stop people from going directly to the file in their browser and downloading it.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks in advance

Wayne.

Easiest way would be through htaccess and htpasswd. Put these in the root of the folder or in sub directories of the root folder where the download-able files will be stored. Whoever wants to access any of the downloads will then have to enter the username and password at least once. Of course this isn't PHP and there are probably better ways.

Thanks Marik,

I've gone down the htaccess and htpasswd route. It'd be nice if i could add the usernames and passwords to the htpasswd dynamically.

Cheers

Wayne