Re: FN-FORUM: Monitoring downloads of MP3s

date posted 16th January 2006 16:30

On Monday 16 Jan 2006 3:26 pm, Graeme J Sweeney wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Dom Latter wrote:
> > (The file itself is not accessible, of course). The punter gets a li=
nk
> > like www.site.com/download.php&token=3D3D128351745632184
> > and after the token's been used the record in the table gets marked
> > as no longer valid.
>
> How do you guarantee the integrity of the download? Is a check
> made of the download against the original e.g. md5sum ?

No. But the download can be set up to have a number of retries allowed=20
and / or be time-limited.