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Subject: Embedding Quicktime and Preventing Hotlinking
Category: Computers > Internet
Asked by: tomreynolds-ga
List Price: $2.00

Posted: 14 Jul 2005 13:46 PDT
Expires: 13 Aug 2005 13:46 PDT
Question ID: 543601

How can I embed Quicktime movies on my webpage and not allow anyone to
either save OR hotlink them from another webpage. .htaccess doesn't
seem to solve the problem entirely.

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Subject: Re: Embedding Quicktime and Preventing Hotlinking
From: prasanthp-ga on 17 Jul 2005 13:53 PDT

Hi there.

There are quite a number of ways and techniques to protect the
quicktime movies being saved.  Apple's Website has detailed
information at the following URL:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/QT4WebPage/samplechap/special-8.html

To prevent others from hotlinking to your quicktime files you need to
do the following:

First - You must set a cookie in your visitors browser BEFORE they
come to a page with the quicktime movie <embed> tag. You can not set
the cookie in the page that contains the <embed> tag.
Do this with the following javascript placed in your html <head> tag. 

var expires = new Date (); 
expires.setTime(expires.getTime() + 1 * 60 * 60 * 1000); 
document.cookie = "mysite=yes; path=/" + "; expires=" + expires.toGMTString(); 

My suggestion is you put this several of your pages - and your homepage for sure. 

Second - Place the following code in a .htaccess file inside of the
directory where you have your movies - it can not be directly in your
public_html - you must set the cookie before a visitor comes to a
directory with this .htaccess file

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteOptions inherit 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://([a-z0-9-]+.)*yourdomain.com/ [NC] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(^|(.+;)*)mysite=yes(;.*|$) 
RewriteRule /*$ http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html [L,R] 

Remember when testing this that if your browser has the correct cookie
- you will be able to see the movie no matter where it is linked from.

(from: http://support.inmotionhosting.com/ask/viewtopic.php?p=60)

Regards,

Prasanth

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