Hide download URL in PHP

[Jassim Rahma]

Hi, I have policies to documents and I want to put it on a web PHP portal for download to the employee with a password protected access. If the URL for a policy is www.myWeb.com/policies/document1.pdf, I don't want any one to see this url when downloading or when viewing the page source. What's the best way to do it? Thanks, Jassim[^]

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[F ES Sitecore]

You can't hide urls from the client. Implement proper security at the webserver level if you want to restrict access.

[Coing_Addict]

You could use the HTML5 download attribute like this:

Click here to download

[Mona sinha]

This is how you can hide download url in PHP:

<?php
$fakeFileName= "fakeFileName.zip";
$realFileName = "realFileName.zip";

$file = "downloadFolder/".$realFileName;
$fp = fopen($file, 'rb');

header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$fakeFileName");
header("Content-Length: " . filesize($file));
fpassthru($fp);
?>

You can see all steps to hide download url here http://5ss.co/viewtopic.php?f=26&p=3[^]