random link / secure paypal link?

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matt9b
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random link / secure paypal link?

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I'm selling downloadable products, and accepting payment using paypal. I then manually email the download link to the buyer each time, and then manually change the link every 48 hours. This is to try to prevent the link being abused or mis-used. I basically don't want the download link to be the same every time.

Is there a way to do this automatically somehow, i.e. provide secure downloads to buyers, for one download only, without me having to send out manual links?

I'm not an advanced programmer- I just use dreamweaver and edit dreamweaver html code. I have implemented some simple java and php in the past, but a long time ago. It would be helpful if there is a way to do this that I can implement myself (I would prefer not to pay a monthly fee to a service to do this for me, but to set it up to work from my website).

I hope this makes sense!

Thanks,

Matt
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Re: random link / secure paypal link?

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Re: random link / secure paypal link?

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You could provide a link to your site that includes a hash. That hash will uniquely identify that user (stored in a database), and a check against that hash should reveal the paypal link if it valid.
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pytrin wrote:You could provide a link to your site that includes a hash. That hash will uniquely identify that user (stored in a database), and a check against that hash should reveal the paypal link if it valid.

thanks, but how do I do this? As I said, I'm not a programmer, I wasn't looking for a concept, I was looking for a complete solution...
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Re: random link / secure paypal link?

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matt9b wrote:
pytrin wrote:I wasn't looking for a concept, I was looking for a complete solution...
:banghead:

You won't find that here.
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