I’m trying to create a Video Hosting site, for that I started checking
all
existing sites like that one to see how they work and how they secure
their
files. For my surprise, I noticed most “video streaming websites” not
only
work the same way but also have exactly the same “url encoding” for
restricting their files according to “File name / Remote IP Address /
Time
Expiration”…
I also notice that all of them work with NGINX and even old versions
(1.2.9)…
All their links look like this:
The ENCODING this link uses is not “MD5” or even “BASE64” and all NGINX
modules specify (so this is what confuses me a lot)…
All this sites encode their links in a format which includes only “a-z”
letters and “2-7” numbers… according to my knowledge this links are in
BASE32… and I can’t find any method or module in NGINX to create my
links
the same way…
6hv743pcesoax3ptxziinrn5wd5fwgxpr63zwur3eqfgsrd6xjog4nyvke
58 chars (weird, MD5 uses 32)…
Did all those sites use the same method? Or were all those sites made by
the
same owner/person?
The thing is that I wanna know how to create in NGINX the same looking
HASH
link in BASE32 (not in MD5, not BASE64 and not any other encoding)…
BASE32!
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