Please remove ?tmstv= from download URL’s by default

  • Resolved pedjas

    (@pedjas)


    6 months, 1 week ago

    I am struggling with my site spending to much resources for some time. I finally found out that main cause is Download monitor. It adds ?tmstv=xxxxxx to every download link to disable cashing. This leads to crawlers getting same files again and again in tenths of thousands of connections.

    It gets quite expensive as I had to buy more and more bandwidth to deal with enlarged resource usage. My site frequently gets down due to bandwitdh issues.

    It is really strange that this cashing avoidance is added. Who wants that? I use caching because I need it. I do not want anything to disable cashing unless I decide so. Turning cache off for some file may be needed in some rare cases and should be set only for such isolated cases.

    Please, remove this ?tmstv=xxxxx from download URLs. Make this optional. Let user who need this to be able to turn it on, maybe even on file basis, not for whole site.

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  • Plugin Support beatrice12

    (@beatrice12)

    Hello @pedjas,

    Thanks for reaching out to us!

    To remove that timestamp, please go to your theme’s functions.php file and at the bottom add this code:
    add_filter('dlm_timestamp_link', '__return_false');

    Save the file and it will remove that from the download links.

    Before making any changes to the theme’s file, I recommend doing a site backup.

    There is also an open ticket regarding this and we will look closely into it. Apologies for the trouble!

    Warm regards,

    Beatrice.

    Plugin Support beatrice12

    (@beatrice12)

    This topic will be marked as resolved as we have an open ticket on GitHub regarding this. Please keep in mind that the ‘resolved’ status is only for this support thread, not the issue on GitHub.

    Thread Starter pedjas

    (@pedjas)

    Can you post link to Github ticket?

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