# Detect file download status **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 8, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/detect-file-download-status/68062 "2006-09-08T20:35:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kleas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/47e85d/32.png) [@kleas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kleas)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/detect-file-download-status/68062/1 "2006-09-08T20:35:34Z")
Hello you Railers, I need to check the status of a file’s download (if it completed succesfully or not). Imagine something like a shop. You login, you pay, you download. And if the file is downloaded successfully I want to stop providing the link to the user, so he/she cant download it any longer. Topic [Secret URLs and file downloads - Rails - Ruby-Forum](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/58677) focuses on a similar issue. There, mod\_secdownload for Lighttpd, and mod\_auth\_token for Apache is suggested to do a job that might do (provide expiring urls). Does anybody know if this functionality can be taken care inside of rails? Something like detecting the status of a send\_file call? many many thanks! ---
**Author:** ![kleas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/47e85d/32.png) [@kleas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kleas)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/detect-file-download-status/68062/2 "2006-09-08T23:31:11Z")
Let’s say a file finished downloading, do you want to make sure that it is not corrupt? If you do, I don’t think you can do that with any server side method. ---
**Author:** ![kleas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/47e85d/32.png) [@kleas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kleas)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 10:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/detect-file-download-status/68062/3 "2006-09-09T10:49:19Z")
Actually I didnt thought about that yet (the corruption thing).I guess I should. For the start I want to make sure that the download completed (i.e. it wasnt interrupted).