Question

For my site let’s say I have a file in a folder called ‘download’

so the direct link for the file would be http://www.testing.com/download/file.exe

I want to throw an authorization token with it like so, …/download/file.exe?auth=asdffg122**, with the auth token being a hash from time and expiry. So far I have written in a .htaccess file :

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule \(.*)$.(exe)$ check.php?file=$1?auth=$2 [QSA]

I want to pass the name of the file to variable $1, and the auth token to the $2 variable. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

like this?

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .*auth=(.*)\&*.*$
 RewriteRule ^.*\/(.*\.exe)$ check.php?file=$1&auth=%n

Assuming you add the auth= to the GET request
Edit: Modified based on comment from $@Orbling