Stop Download managers

Hi

Is there a way to stop download managers on my php webpages?

On 7/5/07, Pieter du Toit <pieter@lpwebdesign.co.za> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there a way to stop download managers on my php webpages?
>
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You could do it by restricting the user agents like so....

<?
if(!stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"mozilla")) {
die("We only allow Mozilla browsers in here!\n");
}
?>

---- OR ----

<?
if(stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],".net")) {
die("You appear to be using a more modern version of Internet Exploder.\n");
}
?>

--
Daniel P. Brown
[office] (570-) 587-7080 Ext. 272
[mobile] (570-) 766-8107

Yeah, but a good portion of Download managers clone the useragent field
anyway so this wouldn't really stop them. The only reliable way I've ever
heard of people doing this is if they see two connections from the same IP
at the same time. I assume you're talking about how to stop download
managers from opening multiple connections in an attempt to get a
fasterdownload.

But in case you're worried about people using a download manager to download
a lot of files or your whole page, then you could have a counter that is
incrememted every time a page is accessed in a database, and if that counter
ever went over let's say 30 in a minute, it would temporarily ban the IP
using .htaccess or something of the like that PHP can write.

- Dan

""Daniel Brown"" <parasane@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:ab5568160707051401g31c2ce52led2cebd5f81ec93f@ mail.gmail.com...
> On 7/5/07, Pieter du Toit <pieter@lpwebdesign.co.za> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Is there a way to stop download managers on my php webpages?
>>
>> --
>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
>>
>>
>
> You could do it by restricting the user agents like so....
>
> <?
> if(!stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"mozilla")) {
> die("We only allow Mozilla browsers in here!\n");
> }
> ?>
>
> ---- OR ----
>
> <?
> if(stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],".net")) {
> die("You appear to be using a more modern version of Internet
> Exploder.\n");
> }
> ?>
>
> --
> Daniel P. Brown
> [office] (570-) 587-7080 Ext. 272
> [mobile] (570-) 766-8107