Website access through another website?
Scenario:
I have a php script on my website (website1.com/test.php)
Another website uses an iframe to make it look like my test.php page is on their site (website2.com/smoke-and-mirrors.php)
Question:
I want to stop anyone from browsing to website1.com/test.php, and only allow website2.com to access it. So that it can only be viewed through website2.com/smoke-and-mirrors.php.
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The goal is to sell access to the pages i develop and allow my clients to make it look like the page is on their site.
From my googleing, it sounds like the an .htaccess REWRITE rule might do this?
I would prefer to do it in PHP though as that is what I am best at.
I have tried the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] global variable, but found that it is not reliable.
Edit: Maybe some type of iframe authentication via an ip address? As the website2.com ip address would be static.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Greg K posted this at 20:02 — 21st July 2009.
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If website2.com is on it's own static IP address, then yes, checking $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] would work.
-Greg
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