Querystrings to connect to music files on website

[hemustvthemes]

HiI am new to ASP and I am just finishing a course on it.I still want to know how I can use a querystring to link music files I have made so it can stop people linking the files through other sites.Hope you can helpThanksHemustvthemes

[justsomeguy]

You can either set up the webserver to not allow outside links to specific files, or you can check the referer to see if they are coming from another site. Do a search on ASP referer to see how to do that.

[hemustvthemes]

HiThanks for your help. I may do that. What I am wondering how to do it connect to files through a query string apart from a database.ThanksHemustvthemes

[justsomeguy]

I'm not sure what you're asking.

[hemustvthemes]

HiLike this link below, but in ASPhttp://www.thesimpsonseh.com/index.php?page=wallpaperThanksHemustvthemes

[justsomeguy]

Are you talking about the filename included in the querystring? What question do you have about that? The way that page works, the page that they link to probably records some statistics about the file, like how many times it's been downloaded or something, and then redirects the user to the file itself.

[hemustvthemes]

Yes. I want to know how to how to do the records thing you mention above and connect them to it.

[justsomeguy]

They can either store the file information in some log file, and increment a counter or something like that, or it's probably easier to look it up in a database. They can look up a record in the database for that filename, and increment the counter on it or add a new record in a database that lists the user's IP, date and time, which file, etc. It's really your choice what you want to keep track of and how you want to do it. To redirect to the file, they can use response.redirect to send them to the appropriate file, that's probably the easiest way.

[hemustvthemes]

Thank you very much. Have you got any tutorials that I could use?Thanks

[justsomeguy]

I don't think there are any tutorials specifically about that. You will need to get the file name from the query string, do whatever you want to do with the database, if anything, like statistics, and then do a response.redirect to wherever the file is.