How to stop embedded iPaper viewer from working outside of my website.

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Schuey

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Nov 17, 2009, 11:20:08 PM11/17/09
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I think what I am trying to do is fairly common but I haven't been
able to find a solution...

I have a website where users license documents for 2 weeks at a time.
When they login links are displayed to any media (PDF, PowerPoint
etc.) currently licensed to them. If their credentials check out they
will then see a page with the iPaper viewer. Since I am handling the
credential verification I'm not worried about non-licensed users
getting to this page, but I am afraid that they could just copy the
embedding code and use it to access the document even after their
subscription expires.

My Question is: am I able to create an embedded iPaper viewer that can
only be used once, or that would not work when running outside of my
website?

Thanks for any and all help!!

- Andrew

Jared Friedman

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Nov 18, 2009, 1:45:49 AM11/18/09
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Hi Andrew,

Good news - I have just the thing for you. Check out iPaper Secure -
an extension of iPaper that allows you lock down embedding in just
this way:
http://www.scribd.com/publisher/ipaper_secure

Bad news - the implementation difficulty is significantly higher than
with the normal version. Once you read over the documentation you
should see fairly quickly whether it's worth it for you, just thought
I'd give you fair warning.

Cheers!
Jared
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Schuey

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Nov 18, 2009, 5:45:42 PM11/18/09
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Thanks Jared that is very helpful!

Do you know of any available code samples where iPaper Secure is being
implemented?
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Jared Friedman

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Nov 18, 2009, 6:40:45 PM11/18/09
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No, sorry. I know of several sites that are using it - see
lightserve.com - but their code is server-side and not open-source.
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