Article Discussion: Generating One-Time URLs with PHP

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I suppose the author didn't consider storing the file behind the webroot or in a database and stream it to the user when appropriate.

Dear daholygoat,

Storing the file "behind" the web tree is exactly what I did in this article (/tmp). As you understand, storing it "inside" the web tree would have taken the whole protection mechanism away.

Using a database would have been another, equally valid, solution to the problem. Actually, you could very easily edit the scripts in the article to stream data from a database instead of directly from the filesystem. However, I choose to use a plain file to keep the article as simple and straight-forward as possible.

Thanks for your interest in the article, hope it was of at least some help

Best,
Dan