How to disable progressive downloads

Question

We have FMS interactive configured to do RTMP and HLS streaming. However the clips still can be downloaded through http://domain.name.com/vod folder. Is there a way to disable progressive downloads? While at it is there a way to disable HDS also? I want to allow HLS and RTMP only.

Answer 1

Reason for your data available for progressive dowload is because its there in webroot. Webroot/<extendend-path> is by default available to any client via http://server-name/<extendend-path> unless you have taken measures to protect it inside Apache's httpd.conf.
You can do one thing. Keep your content outside Apache's webroot. Say C:/myvideos/. for example there is a video there sample.f4v i.e C:/myvideos/sample.f4v
Now you can change the location "HttpStreamingContentPath" pointing to from "../webroot/vod" to "c:/myvideos/" under hls-vod inside httpd.conf (Apache/conf)
<Location /hls-vod>
    HLSHttpStreamingEnabled true
    HLSMediaFileDuration 8000
    HttpStreamingContentPath "C:/myvideos/"
    HLSFmsDirPath ".."
    HLSJITConfAllowed true
   Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Location>
Or you can disable(modify) content availibilty by making appropriate changes unders in httpd.conf
<Directory "../webroot">
    Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
To disable HDS-Live, set "HttpStreamingEnabled" to false under hds-live location directive
<Location /hds-live>
    HttpStreamingEnabled false
To disable HDS-vod, set "HttpStreamingJITPEnabled" to false under hds-vod location directive
<Location /hds-vod>
    HttpStreamingJITPEnabled false
To disable HDS-vod offline fragmented content, set "HttpStreamingEnabled" to false under vod location directive
<Location /vod>
    HttpStreamingEnabled false
You need to restart the Apache server after making the changes to get them reflected next time..
Hope it help