NAME

Apache2::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 Apache2::OneTimeDownload
 
 <Location /download>
                PerlHandler Apache2::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 Apache2::OneTimeDownload;
        
        my $file = $ARGV[0];
        my $comment = $ARGV[1-];
        my $db = '/opt/secret/access.db'

        print Apache2::OneTimeDownload::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

Stephan Jauernick -- stephan@stejau.de Pete Sergeant -- onetimedownload@clueball.com

COPYRIGHT Copyright for this Version: Copyright 2009 Stephan Jauernick. Original 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.

cpanm Apache2::OneTimeDownload

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Apache2::OneTimeDownload