Slip Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Hi, I have a passwored protected directory full of MP3's on my server (hotlinking is also disabled) and have a flash based MP3 player hosted on a page outside of the mp3 folder. Obviously the mp3player will not load any mp3's from the xml playlist as I have enabled authentication via htaccess. I was wondering if there was a way in PHP to obtain access to the directory by passing authentication but still dissalowing access to the directory if the user tried to type in the path_to_mp3_file directly in the URL field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroNiX Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 maybe you can just have the mp3 player grab the xml file using this format: <user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<url-path> This allows you to access a protected directory via web without typing in the credentials as they are included in the URL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 PHP will not require "authentication" to access password protected directories. Unless you're requesting the mp3 file via the http:// protocol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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