NAME

Apache::OneTimeDownload - Tolerant mechanism for expiring downloads

DESCRIPTION
Allows you to distribute files that expire a given time after the first download

SYNOPSIS
In your Apache config:

PerlModule Apache::OneTimeDownload

     <Location /download>
                    PerlHandle Apache:OneTimeDownload
                    SetHandler perl-script
                    PerlSetVar OneTimeDb  /home/sheriff/download_access.db
                    PerlSetVar OneTimeWindow 3600
                    PerlSetVar OneTimeDownloadDirectory /home/sheriff/downloads/
            </Location>

Example authorize.pl...

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Apache::OneTimeURL;

            my $file = $ARGV[0];
            my $comment = $ARGV[1-];
            my $db = '/opt/secret/access.db'
            print Apache::OneTimeURL::authorize( $db, $comment, $file );

and then:

     % authorize.pl TopSecret.pdf Given out on IRC...
     2c61de78edd612cf79c0d73a3c7c94fb

Which might mean:

http://www.sheriff.com/download/2c61de78edd612cf79c0d73a3c7c94fb

CONFIG
OneTimeDb
The location of the DB file where key->file mappings will be kept

OneTimeWindow
The amount of time after a download you wish the file to remain before it expires. An hour is a good sized window...

OneTimeDownloadDirectory
The directory from which you're serving your file downloads - probably not one that's accessible from the web...

&authorize

Adds a key to the db. Accepts these arguments, in this order:

db name
Absolute path of the database

comment
Plain text comments about the file

file
Location of the file - this has the download directory stuck at the beginning of it when it comes to download time...

expires
Time in seconds until the file expires before anyone has downloaded it. Defaults to a week.

AUTHOR

Pete Sergeant -- "onetimedownload@clueball.com"

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2004 Pete Sergeant.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.