in reply to Ideas for implementing download links that expire, via e-mails

Well, if it were me, I'd K.I.S.S. as much as possible.

The first thing that I thought of was kicking off find -mtime 1 --exec rm {} \;. This releives you from any DB work or tracking. It all happens at the filesystem metadata level.

(Of course, you'll probably need a *nix system to get this to work right.

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by ghenry (Vicar) on Apr 23, 2005 at 20:31 UTC

    I like that idea.

    But what if the download on offer has to be kept?

    I suppose you could make a copy and then delete that one after 24 hours.

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