How to restrict to url uploads only?

[Black Tiger]

For the IPS Download addon, one can upload files and "upload" external url's (link to them in fact).

Is there a way to restrict uploads to url's only? So they can't upload files to the file system but only upload url's?

 

[Adriano Faria]

On 7/24/2019 at 7:42 PM, Black Tiger said:

Is there a way to restrict uploads to url's only? So they can't upload files to the file system but only upload url's?

No.

[Black Tiger]

That's a pity. Would be nice if there was one.

[TheJackal84]

6 minutes ago, Black Tiger said:

That's a pity. Would be nice if there was one.

add this to your custom.css and it will hide the progress bar and upload form

div#elDownloadsSubmit_uploader.ipsClear {
  display: none;
}
div#elDownloadsSubmit_progress.ipsClear {
  display: none;
}

leaving only the add url button

[Adriano Faria]

6 minutes ago, TheJackal84 said:

add this to your custom.css and it will hide the progress bar and upload form

div#elDownloadsSubmit_uploader.ipsClear {
  display: none;
}
div#elDownloadsSubmit_progress.ipsClear {
  display: none;
}

leaving only the add url button

You still need a plugin, otherwise the user can upload a new version. Even if you hide via CSS the warning, it's accessible via URL:: ...index.php?/files/file/2-fgsdfs/&do=newVersion

Uploading a new verison, user can edit again the file, remove the URL and leave only the uploaded file.

[TheJackal84]

1 minute ago, Adriano Faria said:

You still need a plugin, otherwise the user can upload a new version. Even if you hide via CSS the warning, it's accessible via URL:: ...index.php?/files/file/2-fgsdfs/&do=newVersion

Uploading a new verison, user can edit again the file, remove the URL and leave only the uploaded file.

could probably hide that setting via css too?

[Adriano Faria]

4 minutes ago, TheJackal84 said:

could probably hide that setting via css too?

 

4 minutes ago, TheJackal84 said:

Even if you hide via CSS the warning, it's accessible via URL:: ...index.php?/files/file/2-fgsdfs&do=newVersion

You can probably hide the upload from that screen too. Anyway, I really don't like to rely in templates/CSS edits since this is tied to the theme. If you have more than one and forget to make it all themes, you failed.

[Black Tiger]

Thank you both, but I rather keep custom.css to a minimum if possible as it's not a really important thing for me.

Sometimes things can get passed such hide option indeed. At this moment I used the setting of maximum file size to 1 kb and used the "approve" option. Works nicely too as a workaround.