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random link / secure paypal link?

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:46 am
by matt9b
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

Re: random link / secure paypal link?

Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:12 am
by matt9b
nothing... anyone? no?........ nothing... anyone? no?........ nothing... anyone? no?........ nothing... anyone? no?........

Re: random link / secure paypal link?

Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:29 am
by Eran
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.

Re: random link / secure paypal link?

Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 6:27 pm
by matt9b
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...

Re: random link / secure paypal link?

Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:58 am
by JayBird
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.