This extension protects your selected directory from anonymous file download. When requesting a file in this directory, the visitor is redirected to a web form instead of starting the download. After entering his coordinates, the file is sent to the interested party as an attachment, the webmaster receives a copy of the address data. Installation and configuration information can be found in the help file in the extension.
Nowadays this solution is not so popular anymore as e-mails with zipped attachment are often recognized as spam.Another variant is to protect the directory by means of file and directory rights and to offer the files it contains in a closed or user area for download using functions.For this, which provides Protected download function of Frank Ziesing on.