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Old 02-19-2009, 05:27 PM  
Big E
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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear View Post
this allows you to change the directory of the video without changin the hardcoded url. so if some clever joe like yourself tries to copy the final video url then i change the directory structure i then get to steal all your traffic , unless you want to change all your hardcoded urls all the time
So you have to monitor your logs for hotlinkers? Isn't the point of the script to eliminate that need? And it would be trivially easy to write a script that follows all the Location redirects so any time you changed the directory, I could auto-change my links as well.

My point is, security through obscurity is not really security. Better to design the thing right the first time and not have to touch it again.
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