hey,
i was told that mod_rewrite had a way of allowing me to limit how much people can download from me in a given day. is this possible? i really want to put a 75 meg/day limit in for people who are downloading multimedia files off of my site.
if anyone can point me in the right direction on where i should go with this, i would be really thankful.
thanks
-mark
SMGFAN.com
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bandwidth restrictions
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by Brett » Mon Aug 05, 2002 1:01 pm
People sometimes talk of "bandwidth protection" with mod_rewrite, but as far as I know they are usually talking about preventing "hotlinking" from other sites.
On the other hand, you could do this:
-- use mod_rewrite so that requests for *.wav are handled by download.php
-- in download.php, determine the size of the requested file, and add that value to a variable stored in a cookie
-- if the user is past the limit, generate an appropriate error message
-- otherwise, use the header() command to generate the appropriate headers, and deliver the file.
On the other hand, you could do this:
-- use mod_rewrite so that requests for *.wav are handled by download.php
-- in download.php, determine the size of the requested file, and add that value to a variable stored in a cookie
-- if the user is past the limit, generate an appropriate error message
-- otherwise, use the header() command to generate the appropriate headers, and deliver the file.
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