Securely Accessing Offsite Content

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I’m serving up pay per view educational content from my WP site which includes many videos, sound, and swf files. Since users will pay for this access and because the content is distributed between a video storage Site B (www.videostoragesite.com) and content delivery Site A, (www.mywpressite.com) the exchange of data between the two sites and within each site must be secure. My ISP providers have bandwidth restrictions that are outrageously expensive if exceeded but the two sites together should handle the distributed load effectively. I don’t want anybody to be able to access any files (html, swf, jpg, mp4…) on Sites A or B through hotlinking or visiting B’s URL directly. Content delivery Site A must be able to hotlink any and all files on content storage Site B and deliver all content seamlessly, which it could do as long as I’ve disabled the current .htaccess file of site B. In so doing, the other objectives cannot be met. Site B must be able to link and interact with all of its own files without restriction as the mix is what constitutes the essential educational content forwarded to Site A on demand. I’ve stumbled around with several solutions but have not created or discovered one that works smoothly without a bunch of gotcha’s or dead ends!

I suspect the answer lies in an appropriately configured .htaccess file but…. I’m not certain. (This kind of scenario can’t be new under the sun)

What do the gurus have to offer?