Protected delivery: Lyceum

The only question that counts

On a course platform the entire paywall hangs on one question: does a video file ever sit at an address reachable without a check? If the answer is yes, one link in a message is enough and everything else is theatre.

One gate, not a net of rules

In Lyceum exactly one path leads to a video. It checks the entitlement and then hands the file through internally via the web server. There is no second path, no exception, no special case for previews. The preview lesson goes through the same gate, it just answers the check differently.

No countable addresses

All identifiers are random, not sequential. Sequential numbers can be counted up; for public images that is irrelevant, for paid videos it would be total failure.

What this means for you

You configure nothing to make the protection work, but the web server must be able to do the internal hand-through. Without it the gate delivers nothing. That is the one point in Installation you must not skip.