Hide Download Address?

[Krisso]

Is there any way to hide the download address? If so, how can it be done and if possible could someone help me with it?

Example:

Real Address:
http://www.happy.com/lala.doc

Displays this as the download address:
http://www.sad.com/lala.doc

[Bruce]

Well, you could change the text in the status bar with a js mouseover, but when a user downloads the file they see the real address in the download dialog box.

[Canuckkev]

Would this be possible using headers in PHP?

EDIT

Never mind, that would only make it so the user downloads from :


"http://happy.com/download.php?file=file.doc" . You couldn't mask the address over domains I don't think.

[keith]

is it really that important?

so you're hotlinking... so what?

everyone does it [not me]

[Krisso]

Originally posted by keith
is it really that important?

so you're hotlinking... so what?

everyone does it [not me]

It is important because I do not wish that other people link to my files ...

If people think its good, they'll link to it. This will result in loss of banwidth on my side.

[Canuckkev]

You can thawrt this by using a download script, that will check the refferer, and if they are from offsite, disallow the download.

[keith]

Originally posted by Krisso


It is important because I do not wish that other people link to my files ...

If people think its good, they'll link to it. This will result in loss of banwidth on my side. ah, is see. well that's totally different. there are plenty of anti-bandwidth leeching scripts at hotscripts.com