Originally Posted by tom3k

im seriously surprised by the number of coders / site owners who believe that ip blocking / design changes are the way to go to prevent scraping...

y'all should go back to class, and read up on lighttpds funky hotlinking prevention modules...

the keywords y'all are gonna want to google are...

drum roll...

allow-x-send-file

for the php coders out there that care... basically lets you do any php pre-processing, then when appropriate conditions are met, hands control over to lighttpd and sends the flv via lighttpd NOT via php... mix that in with a nice little rewrite system, something that generates an md5 based on current timestamp (or whatever other system you like to use...) plus some referrer checking... sprinkle a little bit of javascript obstrufication(sp?) and viola... this scraper is made null and void! no matter how hard the writer of this script tries to make it current...

great way around having to buffer 100megs (or however large the video may be) into phps memory which will kill almost any file server thats doing even the slightest bit of traffic... which is the main (and only? as far as my 8 years banging away at php tell me...) reason why peeps arnt pre-processing all flv transfers...

then again, any coder who can code in a real language can get around all that fairly easily given the right amount of time...

enjoy!