making a Flash movie expire?

[Guest_imported]

Hey all,

I have a paranoid boss who has a nifty new Flash movie to show potential investors. However, he does not want the movie to be passed around to whomever wants it, so he wants it to expire, or be deleted, after 2 or 3 views. Is there any way of doing this short of embedding the whole movie inside a .exe?

 

[oldtemp]

Have a look at this:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/prevent_caching.htm

Using the Pragma: No-Cache header... Could prevent the movie from being cached!
But if it's available on some site... One can allways return!

;-)

 

[scalp]

Password protect, or make the file rely on another, external file (just a simple text file will do - parse the file and assign some essential variables from it). If this is running from a web server, as opposed to a desktop or mobile that he is showing investors, check the url that is loading the movie in action script, this way it could only be played from your web server.

..I could go on...
scalp