[TYPO3-english] Need advice on ways to secure files

[Peter Klein]

Hi Tomas.

You can also try this one:
http://forge.typo3.org/projects/show/extension-pmkfdl

The latest SVN version can protect filelinks.

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Peter Klein


On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:09:45 +0200, "Tomas Havner"
<tomas.havner at kansli.lth.se> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have for a long time been looking for a way to provide my users with an 
>easy way to protect their files in fileadmin from direct access. Telling 
>them to put htaccess-files in the folders is simply not an option, and until 
>now it don't seems to have been a good solution.
>
>But one solution that seems very promising is "Authorized file links" 
>(securelinks). 
>http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/?tx_terfe_pi1%5Bview%5D=search&no_cache=1&tx_terfe_pi1%5Bsword%5D=securelinks. 
>It uses:
>
>includeLibs.securelinks = EXT:securelinks/class.tx_securelinks.php
>lib.parseFunc_RTE {
>  tags.link.typolink.userFunc = tx_securelinks->makeLink
>}
>lib.parseFunc {
>  tags.link.typolink.userFunc = tx_securelinks->makeLink
>}
>
>to wrap the links and a pushfile to deliver the files.
>
>What i'm wondering is:
>
>1. Has anyone any experience of using this extension?
>2. Will this method cause problems with performance?
>3. To protect the folders I'm planning to implement a rewrite-rule that 
>redirects all requests including the word "_private" to a 200-error-page. 
>Are there problems with this method? Are the better ways of doing this?
>4. Is anyone using a better, and user friendly method, to solve this 
>problem?
>
>
>Thanks
>
>Tomas 
>