Rewrite plugins breaks download

Hey @ilovecake!

Thanks for using our plugin!

I’m not aware of anything specifc to WP-Hide, however in our most recent update we added the option to not rewrite our download URL (ie, use the direct link instead of streaming the download.)

I believe this may help address your issue. The top result on this page has instructions to follow:
https://goldplugins.com/documentation/before-after-documentation/before-after-faqs/

Can you let me know if that helps?

All the best,
Richard

Thanks, this works. Unfortunate that the direct URL is exposed, but, for now, this is better than nothing.

For the future, could you potentially still pass the file through a download php file, without streaming. This should still maintain a masked url to the file:

$file_url = 'https://someUrlHere.com/media/somefile.pdf';

header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Cache-Control: public");
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Type: ");
header("Content-Length: " .(string)(filesize($file_url)) );
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($file_url).'"');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary\n");

readfile($file_url); // outputs the content of the file

exit();