Re: FLASH: 'protecting' a piece

[Nigel Randsley-Pena]

Tim,


You have several options.


Preventing a user from downloading your movie : not possible.


Able to authernticate a user from within the movie : Have a login screen

in your movie that collects user name and password from the user like AW

does and then send this info to a cgi script for treatment.


If you want to enable local play of the movie but require the visitor to

be online then you can have a script that calls some info on your

server.


"Also, if at all possible, I don't want to requre

the user input a password or something in the movie as they will already

have done so to gain access to the site - instead, I would like to be

able to check their "log-in" status from an ASP page and then either

continue or quit the piece based on the response. "


This can also be done. It is a bit more complex. One way to implement

this is :

When the user downloads the movie have him download a txt file that

includes his user name and password. When the movie runs have it read

this info and set the corresponding variables. After reading them the

movie will attempt to connect to your server with a post with this info.

On success the movie will play on fail it will stop.


Nigel


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