How to prevent deep linking to files on my website

Question

I own a website which contain a lot of freeware stuff to download on it. The problem I\'m facing is that people from around the world are taking the direct links of the fil

Answer 1

If you are using PHP, you can have a script that links the user to the download but only if the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] is from your site. If it is not you redirect to your site.