Prevent direct access to page using htaccess
<p>I am trying to prevent direct access to an html page that has downloads.  I want to force the user to login from a separate page.
Currently I am running a simple rewrite </p>

<pre><code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.example.com/this-page.html$ 
RewriteRule this-download-page.html - [F,NC] 
</code></pre>

<p>This works great in everything other than ie11 and down.
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?</p>