nginx-0.7.18

Hendry Lee hendry.lee at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 20:23:16 MSD 2008


> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> > The ngx_http_secure_link_module allows to create a secure
> link as..

[...]

> lighttpd has a similar feature with an additional
> possibility to specify
> a timeout:
> http://redmine.lighttpd.net/wiki/lighttpd/Docs:ModSecDownloa
> d
> 

I was just wondering is this similar to lighty's mod_secdownload.
I used this feature on one of my site so I definitely will test
this feature soon. Perhaps next week.

> The timeout would be a nice addition to nginx, because
> otherwise once
> someone has received the "secure link" he can pass it around
> to other
> people and it will never expire.
> 

Spot on. Combination of both options allow dynamically generated
link that expires at a predetermined interval. I second this
feature.

> Steffen







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