Link hide'n

**Sacofjoea** · Nov 5th, 2001, 04:17 PM

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

**sail3005** · Nov 5th, 2001, 04:19 PM

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

**Sacofjoea** · Nov 5th, 2001, 04:25 PM

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

**sail3005** · Nov 5th, 2001, 04:29 PM

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?

**Sacofjoea** · Nov 5th, 2001, 04:30 PM

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

**sail3005** · Nov 5th, 2001, 04:35 PM

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

**Sacofjoea** · Nov 5th, 2001, 04:40 PM

alright, and how would you do that

**Sacofjoea** · Nov 5th, 2001, 04:42 PM

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?

**sail3005** · Nov 5th, 2001, 04:44 PM

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.

**Sacofjoea** · Nov 5th, 2001, 04:46 PM

yes i can use perl, not sure about ASP

**sail3005** · Nov 5th, 2001, 05:27 PM

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

**Sacofjoea** · Nov 5th, 2001, 05:57 PM

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?

**sail3005** · Nov 5th, 2001, 06:22 PM

regular directory, wherever you want them.

**da_silvy** · Nov 6th, 2001, 12:23 AM

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?

**Sacofjoea** · Nov 6th, 2001, 03:51 PM

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

**sail3005** · Nov 6th, 2001, 04:39 PM

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

**da_silvy** · Nov 7th, 2001, 02:32 AM

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

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