Good afternoon, I am now finishing work on one site, and the question arose: how to organize access to video files, i.e. On one of the pages there is a link to the video file (approximately 700 megabytes), how is it better to make a captcha form, after filling in which the user will receive the file or just a link to the file without a form?

The fact is that some people say that if you just make links to such files, they will be pulling the bots and these files are not entirely correct, how long is such a statement justified?

    2 answers 2

    It is better to give links just like that, but, you can protect them, for example, not to give files to those who have a referrer not your site, or link links to IP addresses.

    • as I understand it is possible to set type settings in Apashe or nginx configs, if the user did not initially switch to the page, then do not issue them, right? - Rumato
    • one
      True, it is possible to register in configs, but it is safer to still bind to IP. - naym

    I advise you to simply make links to the file, or simply allow registered users to download.