Can you advise on protecting file urls?

  • Hi I’d like to use this plugin along with a membership plugin where some of the videos which utilize your plugin would be member only videos.

    Having said that, if anyone has the url to the video, which they can get through multiple ways such as viewing the source and some other stuff in the Chrome Console, then those videos urls (member videos urls) are not protected.

    Id appreciate any feedback you might be able to provide on whats available to help with this, and use your plugin.

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Kyle Gilman

    (@kylegilman)

    At the moment I don’t have any system for obscuring file URLs. I’m hoping to support token-based authentication for video URLs in the future, but I have a lot to learn about it before I can implement it. It’s also possible to keep the video files in a non-web-accessible folder and stream video playback through PHP, which I believe is what this plugin does. But that takes up a lot of system resources and I can’t figure out if it’s actually worth doing. Tokenization seems like a better, more scalable solution. But neither of these systems work with my plugin at the moment.

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