Protecting Files

[Clint Davis <cdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm running iTools 7.3/Apache 2.0 on an Xserve.

I have several PDF files on my site. To view the PDFs, each visitor needs to
register first. Even after they register, I don't want them to be able to
access PDFs directly by typing in the full URL - they must click a link
within the site. Since the links are always visible, I can't just hide/show
them based on the registration cookie.

The flow is like this:

1. Visitor clicks link to PDF
2. Are they registered?
    a. Yes
        i. Show the PDF
    b. No
        i. Take them to the register page
        ii. Visitor completes form and clicks submit
        iii. Show the PDF

How can this be done?
Use .htaccess?
Use mod_rewrite?
Other solution?


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