Hide video from DownloadHelper.

Francisco

Another is to run it all through a .php file, where the .php file is what does the actual streaming.

You can then do whatever checks you like.

Francisco

OneTwo

@Francisco said: Another is to run it all through a .php file, where the .php file is what does the actual streaming.

more information?

Francisco

@OneTwo said: more information?

Well, let me just confirm, this download helper searches for URL's to leech and then it allows them to leech I guess?

OneTwo

@Francisco yes.

Francisco

@OneTwo said: @Francisco yes.

Have you checked if it uses an obvious user-agent? If it isn't forging you can likely catch it that way.

Francisco

quirkyquark

@Francisco said: Well, let me just confirm, this download helper searches for URL's to leech and then it allows them to leech I guess?

It's a little more sophisticated than that...

OneTwo

@Francisco how can I stream by php?

Francisco

@OneTwo said: @Francisco how can I stream by php?

I'm just trying to think of the best way to handle it. lighttpd has mod_secdownload, but the user is still given a full URL that they have however many seconds to start a leech of.

Francisco

quirkyquark

@Roph said: You'd have better luck "protecting" your stream by not serving a static file but a stream over something like RTSP.

+1

This is where DownloadHelper, as a Mozilla extension, reaches its limits: media using a transport protocol other than HTTP cannot be captured.

But I think @OneTwo has his heart set on something PHP...

OneTwo

@quirkyquark said: But I think @OneTwo has his heart set on something PHP...

rtmp can be captured with rtmpdump. what else can I use?

quirkyquark

@OneTwo said: rtmp can be captured with rtmpdump.

@OneTwo said: 99% of the viewers are newbies so who cares......

How many newbies are going to be using rtmpdump?

OneTwo

@quirkyquark how many newbies are going to look on http headers or browser cache?

OneTwo

combining the two ways it will be even harder.

quirkyquark

@OneTwo said: how many newbies are going to look on http headers or browser cache?

So who exactly do you want to block...I'm confused. You told @debug that you didn't care about redirects...???

OneTwo

@quirkyquark said: So who exactly do you want to block...I'm confused. You told @debug that you didn't care about redirects...???

i'm confused on what you're confused.

MrAndroid

Can't you do something similar to what them download counters do where they push the file via PHP but dont actually give out the download link.

mikho

I did a rapidshare downloader once...
all it had was a editbox and a button, users pasted the url to the file in the editbox and clicked the button. PHP then got the correct url as a premium user and streamed it to the user.

I think thats something inline with what you want to do.
I'll see if I can find the code and put it on github or something... if I find it.

komo

this sounds like "how do I hide my Javascript/HTML"? or like disabling right mouse click to disallow saving pictures etc ;-).

OneTwo

@komo said: this sounds like "how do I hide my Javascript/HTML"? or like disabling right mouse click to disallow saving pictures etc ;-).

not really.