I've a zip file on my web server for download. I've made a link to that file and authenticate the user. But If user knows that link and use direct link in browser window he can access that.
How can I authenticate if user use direct link to that file.
Please help me

There my be many ways to cope this:

1) You can use session variable
2) Can check URL Referrer(I think in ur case it wil work fine along with session)

Regards
Ali Irfan

User is accessing the URL Like
http://www.mysite.com/myfiles/mycode.zip
then where can I check URL Referrer, because he is accessing the file directly from browser. Kindly tell me in detail I'm new to web development.

This seems like a strange request. Are you trying to prevent unauthenticated users from accessing the file or are you trying to prevent direct access to the file?

In the case of the former you could setup a web.config for the directory the Zip file is in to only allow authenticated users to access its contents.

http://www.velocityreviews.com/forum...webconfig.html

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