Re: Restrict user from downloading/saving asf over http mms

On 13 Oct 2006 06:39:18 -0700, gogaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi,

I have a website where I upload audio clips using admin panel developed
by our programmers. On front end it shows links starting with
mms://doman-name.com/music/filename.asf

But if a user copy n paste the url in IE and replace mms with http, the
song gets downloaded and user can easily save it on the computer.

Is there anyway to prevent/restrict user from downloading and saving
asf files?


It sounds like these programmers have "helpfully" loaded the media
files into a directory structure which can *also* be seen by the web
server.

As a result, any direct request to the web server and it'll oblige by
sending the requested file. So are you sure you're hitting the media
server and not the web server here ? I'm sure you are, but you might
be doing some weird stuff which you haven't explained.


Windows 2003 standard server with IIS 6 and windows media service


OK check your server config : You should have http streaming enabled
on a specific port, and since you're running IIS that port probably
won't be port 80 (cause you can't bind 2 services to one port)

You can specify the correct port number in the URL, for example
http://doman-name.com:8100/music/filename.asf to ensure these requests
aren't sent to your web server. But I'd still make sure the music
directory isn't under the web server's document root if you intend it
only to be delivered by the media server.


HTH
Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
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