risal-download is a simple scripts to avoid download abuse(either by human or robot).
| Author: | Risal Affendie (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.0.0 |
| WordPress version tested: | 3.3.2 |
| Plugin version: | 1.6 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 12-01-2012 |
| Last updated: | 29-03-2012
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Plugin URI: | http://linuxuserjp.wordpress.com/ |
| Total downloads: | 3 183 |
| Active installs: | 10+ |
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THE PURPOSE
This plugin created to avoid unethical download activity by user. It prohibit user to use download manager, changing between browsers or sessions and such act consider as abuse. Never try on windows server though but working well on ubuntu. Let me know if it’s work on other OS.
WHY USE IT?
It is a bad idea to locate any download-able files inside Apache’s root directory where it is directly and freely accessible by Internet users. What I worried about is apache user can’t read outside of it’s root directory (mostly outside /var/www). I don’t know, it’s depend on OS distribution. My suggestion, you may change chmod of target directory. By the way don’t forget to notice visitors to disable pop-up blocker for your site.
Please feel free to visit below’s url for more information and leave some comment to help me improve the script.
http://linuxuserjp.wordpress.com
Salam. May God Guide and Bless you.