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Topic: prevent direct linking

Posted By: Badaboem
Subject: prevent direct linking
Date Posted: 16 August 2003 at 4:57am

Is there an easy way to prevent direct linking to uploads in the forum?

It's an increasing problem on my site.

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Posted By: ctscott
Date Posted: 16 August 2003 at 8:33am

i haven't used the following code in a forum environment but i have used it elsewhere and i imagine the code could be improved upon.

I put it in the global.asa file which would reside in your web root directory. on session start the global.asa should fire up and execute the code.

Sub Session_OnStart

' Make sure that new users start on the correct page of default.asp...Can't jump into middle of site

startPage = "default.asp"

currentPage = Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME")

' Do a case insensitive compare, and if they don't match, send the user to the start page.

If strcomp(currentPage,startPage,1) Then Response.Redirect("http://www.mywebsite.com/" & startPage)

End If

END SUB