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Xlight can be configured to change "xxxx" periodically, so the whole download link "/xxxx/public/download/test.txt" will change also. For example, if your originally ftp link is "/public/download/test.txt", after anti-leech protection the link will become "/xxxx/public/download/test.txt", where "xxxx" is the random path part added by Xlight FTP Server. Xlight ftp provides a new mechanism for anti-leech protection, where it can automatically add a random path part before all ftp links. How the anti-leech protection in Xlight FTP Server works?

With the help of anti leech protection, you can prevent this behavior and save your bandwidth. This could steal all the bandwidth of your site. But you may face the problem that someone copies your file links and puts them on his own website, which could incur many unwanted downloading to your website. As a webmaster hosting many downloadable files in website, you may hope users to click download links directly from your home page, so they will see those advertisements in your home page before downloading.