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A work post? Here???

That’s right, folks, I’m finally talking about work. I know you’ve all been waiting eagerly, so here it is:

I’m dealing with podcasting at the moment. We’re trying to create a podcast that individual users can subscribe to (each via a custom url) and download their purchased products.

I’ve got everything humming along happily, with one minor exception: I can’t get my authentication check to work when someone goes to download their file. In other words, I can make the list of downloads show up in the podcatching client (iTunes, iPodder, whatever), but I can’t get it to download the actual file, since I have to redirect the download request through a PHP script to make sure that they’re allowed to download it.

Sigh. Just wanted to vent a bit, so I guess I’m done. We now return you to your regularly-scheduled life, already in progress.