I need help posting copyrighted content!

[Garibaldo]

Hi, I'm trying to make a class webpage for my school. The school
website has a series of audio files that associate with our lectures
that are accessible when users type in their user\pass in a login
prompt. I want to link to these files and allow students to access
them without having to navigate through the school's complicated web
system. However, when I login to the school's system and copy the URL
from the properties of each link to my webpage, it allows me to
download these files off my webpage WITHOUT being prompted for a
user\pass. I tried deleting cookies, etc, but it still doesn't prompt
for a user\pass. Obviously this is a security flaw in their system
that allows users to simply copy the URL and access protected content
on their site without being prompted for a user\pass. I'd like a
user\pass prompt to appear when users click on my URL links. They
cannot access the content directly because there are some legal
restrictions to doing that. Anyone have any idea what I need to do
now?

The basic URL layout is like this:

http://xx.schoolwebsitename.edu/20+ random
digits/courses/1/audiorecordings/audiofilename.wma

How the hell do I make it prompt me for a user\pass to access this
content between our sites?

I would appreciate ANY help!
Thanks!

Robin H.

 

[David Berry]

If the links are to pages on the school's site then there's nothing you can
do until they fix their security. If you save them to your site you can put
them in a sub web and make that password protected (Tools, Security,
Permissions). Note, your ISP may have to set this up for you

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You would have to create login application on your site prior to users having access to the links.
The best approach is to get the school to restrict access to the individual files, then by clicking
a link from your site (or any other site) would require the user to have a login that has been
provided by the school to access.

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[Garibaldo]

Do you have any idea what the security issue might be on the school's
server that allows this to happen?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

There are 2 ways to address this issue:

1. All the pages and files need to be in a single folder that has restricted access.

2. Access to the files for downloading must be controlled by a server-side script, the then force a
download of the file, but only if the user is logged into the server.

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