Link hide'n

Hey, what is the best way to completely hide a link without having any submit button on the page?
I just want a regular text link that completely has the download link hidden, even hidden in the code..

Thanks
-Sac

what download link are you talking about? are you talking about autostarting a download?

well any kind of link.. one they click on, Or the auto start link we discussed in my other forum ppost

sorry, i must be confused, but why would you even want it, if it is going to be hidden from the code as well? are you trying to hide the URL?

lol yes i meant URL. sorry wasn't clear on that

ahhh...i think i might see what you are saying. Do you want to URL hidden, so that people cannot steal your downloads or something? there is no way to directly hide the URL, but you can create a ASP/PHP download script, that will hide the direct path to the file...so your URL would read like this:

http://www.mysite.com/downloads/download.asp?file=1

alright, and how would you do that

ahh.. my host doesn't support php.. :( lol nm
Is there anyway to store the urls like in a text file and then get it from there and download it using a variable?

can you use Perl/ASP?

you really need a server language.

You could do it in a JS file, with an array and stuff, but people could still get the source if they really wanted.

yes i can use perl, not sure about ASP

Hmmm...well, i can't really help you any further, as i do not know perl. :( however, the script you seek is fairly common, and you should be able to find one at most script archives.

check out: http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts

hey, I had someone in the vbchat help me, one more thing though, where do I place asp files? Regular directory? or cgi-bin? or what?

regular directory, wherever you want them.

ascii?

download.asp?id=a

on download.asp

nId = Asc(Request.QueryString("id")) - 96

then download nID file

so download.asp?id=a

would be file 1

is that what you meant?

No.. im saying that my server requires you to upload your cgi in ascii, wanted to know if it was required on all servers, I guess it doesn't matter cause its not working anyways

it's just a text file so it should be ascii

I upload everything in ascii - seems to work fine....