WP eStore – Automatically Shorten the Encrypted Download Link

[admin]

You can shorten the eStore’s encrypted download link and then deliver the shortened link to your customers. To enable this option please do the following:

1. Open “eStore_advanced_configs.php” file and search for this line of code:

define('WP_ESTORE_AUTO_SHORTEN_DOWNLOAD_LINKS', false);

Once you find it, change it the following (basically change the “false” value to “true”):

define('WP_ESTORE_AUTO_SHORTEN_DOWNLOAD_LINKS', true);

This will make it so that the encrypted download links will be shortened using Google’s URL Shortener service and given to your customers.

[rhpitguy]

How secure is the shortened URL from google?

It is a sweet feature, but I am just concerned about bot programs or someone else being able to acquire the download.

Thanks,

Graham

[wzp]

The shortened URL will resolve back to the encrypted URL, which is then passed to eStore. Sharing of the shortened URL has the same effect as sharing of the encrypted URL; it expires after so many hours or uses. So customers CANNOT use the shortened URL to download the item indefinitely.

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