[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Digital Goods Storage from Other Site ## - **[lynnfredricks](/forum/user/12293-lynnfredricks "View lynnfredricks's Profile")** - [![lynnfredricks's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/12293-lynnfredricks "View lynnfredricks's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/12293-lynnfredricks) Less More - Posts: 6 - Thank you received: 0 - - 13 years 10 months ago [\#81687](#81687) by [lynnfredricks](/forum/user/12293-lynnfredricks "View lynnfredricks's Profile") *[Digital Goods Storage from Other Site](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/76683-digital-goods-storage-from-other-site#81687 "This is a pre-sales question. We are looking at HikaShop as an alternative to xCart. Files that are served up as digital goods can be stored on a separate server. I see that digital goods in Hikashop have a URL associated with them, but I cannot find documentation that says this URL can be from anywhere. Is this possible?")* was created by *[lynnfredricks](/forum/user/12293-lynnfredricks "View lynnfredricks's Profile")* This is a pre-sales question. We are looking at HikaShop as an alternative to xCart. Files that are served up as digital goods can be stored on a separate server. I see that digital goods in Hikashop have a URL associated with them, but I cannot find documentation that says this URL can be from anywhere. Is this possible? Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzItZ2VuZXJhbC10YWxrLWFib3V0LWhpa2FzaG9wLzc2NjgzLWRpZ2l0YWwtZ29vZHMtc3RvcmFnZS1mcm9tLW90aGVyLXNpdGU/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/register) to join the conversation. - **[Jerome](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile")** - [![Jerome's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar80.png)](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/80-jerome) - HikaShop core developer Less More - Posts: 26394 - Thank you received: 4078 - - [](http://obsi.dev) - 13 years 10 months ago [\#81769](#81769) by [Jerome](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile") Replied by *[Jerome](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile")* on topic *[Digital Goods Storage from Other Site](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/76683-digital-goods-storage-from-other-site#81769 "This is a pre-sales question. We are looking at HikaShop as an alternative to xCart. Files that are served up as digital goods can be stored on a separate server. I see that digital goods in Hikashop have a URL associated with them, but I cannot find documentation that says this URL can be from anywhere. Is this possible?")* Hi, When you add a file to a product in HikaShop you can specify a location. This location could be an url (starting by "http://") and at this moment, when the customer would want to download, he would be redirected to the url. Regards, --- Jerome - Obsidev.com HikaMarket & HikaSerial developer / HikaShop core dev team. 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We are looking at HikaShop as an alternative to xCart. Files that are served up as digital goods can be stored on a separate server. I see that digital goods in Hikashop have a URL associated with them, but I cannot find documentation that says this URL can be from anywhere. Is this possible?")* > Jerome wrote: Hi, > When you add a file to a product in HikaShop you can specify a location. > This location could be an url (starting by "http://") and at this moment, when the customer would want to download, he would be redirected to the url. > Regards, Is this a Hikashop, generated URL that protects the location of the file? It is important that the URL is not something that is clearly permanent URL. Otherwise, someone could simply share that URL with anyone and gain access to the digital product. 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We are looking at HikaShop as an alternative to xCart. Files that are served up as digital goods can be stored on a separate server. I see that digital goods in Hikashop have a URL associated with them, but I cannot find documentation that says this URL can be from anywhere. Is this possible?")* Hi, HikaShop provide secured links which would check if the customer is logged and if he as bought the right product. After all these checks done, if the "file name" is a url, it would redirect the customer to this url. So the customer would be able to see the final URL. Regards, --- Jerome - Obsidev.com HikaMarket & HikaSerial developer / HikaShop core dev team. Last edit: 13 years 10 months ago by [Jerome](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile"). 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We are looking at HikaShop as an alternative to xCart. Files that are served up as digital goods can be stored on a separate server. I see that digital goods in Hikashop have a URL associated with them, but I cannot find documentation that says this URL can be from anywhere. Is this possible?")* > Jerome wrote: Hi, > > HikaShop provide secured links which would check if the customer is logged and if he as bought the right product. > After all these checks done, if the "file name" is a url, it would redirect the customer to this url. So the customer would be able to see the final URL. So they see the actual URL where the file is stored? If that's true, there's nothing to stop them from copy-pasting that URL anyplace, and anyone who is not logged in can download or link to that file. That would be very harmful for digital product commerce if there is no way to hide the actual location of the file. I hope this is not so with Hikashop, and maybe its a misunderstanding. Other shops like xCart (which is lousy in many ways and why we are looking at Hikashop) generate a long, unique URL for the user and does not reveal the actual file location on the other server. A customer cannot simply copy-paste the URL and share it with the world. Does it work this way with Hikashop? 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Files that are served up as digital goods can be stored on a separate server. I see that digital goods in Hikashop have a URL associated with them, but I cannot find documentation that says this URL can be from anywhere. Is this possible?")* Hi, HikaShop is design to send files which are stored in his local server. When you enter a url, HikaShop would redirect the user to this url, because it's possible that you don't want to send a hidden file. The file could be a "free file" so you don't want to hide the file path. If you really want to hide the file which is stored in another place, on another server, you have to implement a custom plugin in order to download and upload the remove file in the same time. Local files, where you do not enter an external url, are quite secured and file path would never display to the customers. Regards, --- Jerome - Obsidev.com HikaMarket & HikaSerial developer / HikaShop core dev team. Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzItZ2VuZXJhbC10YWxrLWFib3V0LWhpa2FzaG9wLzc2NjgzLWRpZ2l0YWwtZ29vZHMtc3RvcmFnZS1mcm9tLW90aGVyLXNpdGU/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/register) to join the conversation. - **[lynnfredricks](/forum/user/12293-lynnfredricks "View lynnfredricks's Profile")** - [![lynnfredricks's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/12293-lynnfredricks "View lynnfredricks's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/12293-lynnfredricks) Less More - Posts: 6 - Thank you received: 0 - - 13 years 10 months ago [\#82103](#82103) by [lynnfredricks](/forum/user/12293-lynnfredricks "View lynnfredricks's Profile") Replied by *[lynnfredricks](/forum/user/12293-lynnfredricks "View lynnfredricks's Profile")* on topic *[Digital Goods Storage from Other Site](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/76683-digital-goods-storage-from-other-site#82103 "This is a pre-sales question. We are looking at HikaShop as an alternative to xCart. Files that are served up as digital goods can be stored on a separate server. I see that digital goods in Hikashop have a URL associated with them, but I cannot find documentation that says this URL can be from anywhere. Is this possible?")* > Jerome wrote: Hi, > > HikaShop is design to send files which are stored in his local server. > When you enter a url, HikaShop would redirect the user to this url, because it's possible that you don't want to send a hidden file. The file could be a "free file" so you don't want to hide the file path. > If you really want to hide the file which is stored in another place, on another server, you have to implement a custom plugin in order to download and upload the remove file in the same time. > > Local files, where you do not enter an external url, are quite secured and file path would never display to the customers. > > Regards, Thank you for your answer. That is not ideal for many kinds of digital goods. With xCart for example, you can store your goods on the server itself, or you can store them at any location - it makes no difference. The URL of the actual product just needs to be input into the system. Often times files are stored on separate servers because of performance and costs. There can be a significant savings. In our case, thousands of items are stored that way. With xCart, the system already knows the real URL, then generates automatically a temporary URL when the customer requests it (based on a timer). 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Files that are served up as digital goods can be stored on a separate server. I see that digital goods in Hikashop have a URL associated with them, but I cannot find documentation that says this URL can be from anywhere. Is this possible?")* You can do that with HikaShop too. If you give the URL of the external file, that will work. And the user won't get the direct URL but will be redirected to it by HikaShop. That must be the same with xcart, because otherwise, if it has to download each time the file to the server before sending it, there is absolutely no performance gain and no cost gain at all. That temporary URL of xcart will redirect to the file on the external server. So the solution is the same as far as I can see. Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzItZ2VuZXJhbC10YWxrLWFib3V0LWhpa2FzaG9wLzc2NjgzLWRpZ2l0YWwtZ29vZHMtc3RvcmFnZS1mcm9tLW90aGVyLXNpdGU/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/register) to join the conversation. 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