MembersArea to protect links/files?

[Alexandre]

Hello!
I wonder if there's a way to use a MembersArea plugin to protect not the whole pages, but some links, i.e. make them visible and downloadable (or simply to require a member's login to download files) only to members?
Currently I can create the page for with links for members and the same page for non-members, but if I know the link to the file, it may be downloaded from the site without logging in. So anti-leech generally is a concern.

Thanks.

[Gert]

I wonder if there's a way to use a MembersArea plugin to protect not the whole pages, but some links, i.e. make them visible and downloadable (or simply to require a member's login to download files) only to members?

No, MembersArea is just a Plugin to protect/hide the contents of CMSimple pages.

... but if I know the link to the file, it may be downloaded from the site without logging in.

If you are allowed to use .htaccess, try to add a .htaccess file to the folder ./userfiles/downloads/ with following content:

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Order deny,allow
Deny from all

... and set the download link this way:

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./?download=filename.pdf

Direct access/download should be forbidden now, but the download link should work,
Gert

[Alexandre]

Thanks for the reply.
I played with htaccess, but it didn't seem to work for me. Maybe I simply don't have the rules enabled on the web hosting.

I finally used a very weird combination of expand/collapse addon and protecteddownloads addon to hide the link - it actually does the trick - I create a subpage with a protected link, set it to be member-only accessible (using membersarea), then put and expand/collapse to a page which should contain the link - the expansion (and thus link visibility) is only available for logged in members