Large File Download Issue Workarounds (Downloads stopping at a certain point)

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Large File Download Issue Workarounds (Downloads stopping at a certain point)

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scottonstott
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I also want to sell large files through the WP eStore and have an idea/question about how to make this happen. I've signed up for Amazon S3 to store the media files I want to sell. There is a WP plugin called S3Vault (http://s3vault.com/) that encrypts the actual URL of the file on S3 so people won't be able to hijack what I'm selling; this link can also be set to expire.

S3Vault uses a shortcode to encrypt the actual URL like this [s3safe]FileOnS3.zip, Link Title, file[/s3safe]

My question is how can I get the eStore to parse the S3Vault's shortcode and deliver it to my customer upon purchase?

Posted 3 months ago #
amin007
Key Master

eStore needs a link to the actual file so it can read it and serve the download to the client. I am not sure how the following is going to work:

"how can I get the eStore to parse the S3Vault's shortcode and deliver it to my customer upon purchase?"

Posted 2 months ago #
SMaz
Member

An idea -

When you set up a product in eStore there is an option in the Buy Now Type Button Specific Settings section which says Return URL. The help text under it says "This option is only used for Buy Now type buttons. This is useful when you want to use a different return URL than the one specified in the Settings menu for this product. Can be used to redirect customers to different URL for different product after payment"

Perhaps if you did not set up your product as downloadable within the eStore and instead used this link to send the purchaser to a separate Thank You page for the product. Then on that Thank You page you used the S3Vault shortcode to deliver the download link. That way, eStore is not trying to "serve" the content to the buyer. That would all be handled by S3Vault.

Posted 2 months ago #
amin007
Key Master

Yep, very good idea... thanks for sharing.

Posted 2 months ago #
ToneManufacture
Member

So that would work?

But couldn't people who had paid then just give out the Return URL, which would enable anyone to just go to that page and download your content?

Posted 2 months ago #
ToneManufacture
Member

Hi,

Can anyone answer this for me?

How would you restrict access to the Return URL and the S3Vault links to just paying customers?

Posted 2 months ago #
SMaz
Member

Tone,

Go to S3 Valut's site. Right on the front page they talk about EXPIRING URLs. So, even if they passed the link along, if you set the expire time to be short enough, it wouldn't really matter.

S3 looks like a pretty flexible product. Since it's whole purpose is to protect your content from being "stolen" I would imagine that combining what they can do with the flexibility and versatility of eStore that you could design a system that would let you sleep well at night.

eMail me if you'd like some help with it.

Posted 2 months ago #
amin007
Key Master

You can use the "Pay Per View" option for the page that has the S3Vault links. So you create a page in WordPress and hide it from the navigation menu so no one knows about it, then place the S3Vault links on that page.

When creating the product use the URL of this page in the "Digital Product URL" field and use the "Pay Per View" option (uncheck the "downloadable" option and check the "Pay Per View Content" option). Now, when someone purchase this product he/she will get an encrypted link. Clicking that link will send them to this page but the URL of this page will be hidden.

Posted 2 months ago #
ToneManufacture
Member

Hi Amin,

That solution sounds workable, I'll have to have a go and see how it goes in practice.

Steve,

The front page of the S3 Vault has this to say about expiring URLs, "Auto expiring URLs for embedded content EACH TIME THE PAGE LOADS." (My emphasis).

That would imply that just putting an S3 Vault shortcode on the site would not be enough to secure the content, as the expiring URL would refresh on every page load.

But then again, I could be missing something obvious. ;-)

Thanks for your help, both of you.

Posted 2 months ago #
chrisegg
Member

So with the pay per view option, if someone finds the page that has the content that is only available when payed for they will be able to view it without purchasing it?

The pay per view option does not protect the page in any way?

Posted 1 month ago #

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