ign_password_protect

FireFusion · 2007-04-19 16:40:42

Thanks ign, that’s very useful.

One more question. What type of data are the password encrypted as (e.g. md5)?

igner · 2007-04-19 16:43:39

mysql password hash

yeah · 2007-05-03 17:35:07

is there a possibility to protect not only sections, but files??? i need a download area with user-management like in this plugin. problem ist, that it does not help, if somebody knows the deeplink to the download-file. thanks for suggestions.

FireFusion · 2007-05-03 17:56:40

Some guy did it for EE

Sounds like another plugin to me.

Zanza · 2007-05-03 19:51:31

I would need a similar download password protection too. Anyone could do it, maybe on pay?

igner · 2007-05-03 20:03:33

It’s doable; there are a couple of different options I’ve been considering. One involves creating a new upload module, and storing the files outside the web root, or in an .htaccess protected directory. The former is ideal, as it’d be impossible to hit the file except through the download routine. Thinking about it, I suppose I could use the existing upload facility, then move the files (just thinking out loud here).

I may be spending some more time with TXP in the near future, when I do, I’ll look at the file download issue. Of course, financial support could expedite the process…

NeilA · 2007-05-03 21:33:48

Would happily contribute financially to this – have really appreciated the current plugin.

yeah · 2007-05-06 13:37:11

what do you think, how long would this last, if we find a way to “motivate” you? days, weeks, months?

mrdale · 2007-05-06 17:43:13

This is such a useful plugin. I think there are those amongst us that would contribute to it simply for it’s existing functionality.

So how about it igner? set up a dropcash page.
How about it people? money and mouth time.

:)

igner · 2007-05-07 02:08:09

@yeah – my gut says a couple of weeks, since it just dawned on me how to get around the biggest hurdle.

@mrdale – good call on the dropcash page. I’ll have something up in a bit.

To those looking for such functionality:
I’ll have to build the interface for actually choosing to protect the

So now I just have to sort out an interface for this – I assume to be really valuable, you’d need flexible permissions for each file, and/or for a category of files.

The other piece is that I’ll also have to sort out the landing page for unauthorized attempts. Suggestions / feedback on that front would be much appreciated.

mrdale · 2007-05-07 04:47:50

igner wrote:

landing page for unauthorized attempts.

direct to a form through an attribute, ie. no_can_have_that_file_message=“my_form”

Last edited by mrdale (2007-05-07 04:53:44)

igner · 2007-05-07 12:30:44

i wrote:
landing page for unauthorized attempts.

mrdale wrote:
direct to a form through an attribute, ie. no_can_have_that_file_message=“my_form”

That’s sort of the direction I’m leaning, but I’ll actually have to have a page to hit, not just a form, since there are two parts to the protection process: making sure that clicked links are suitably protected (easy enough to do now by simply wrapping that content in pass_protect tags), and the bigger one, making sure that someone can’t simply run through www.example.com/file_download/[1-1000] to see what they get.

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