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Unwanted image links |
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cterran (21:53 16/1/2004)
mavhc (22:05 16/1/2004)
Kinetic (22:35 16/1/2004)
cterran (15:23 18/1/2004)
rich (15:25 18/1/2004)
Kinetic (15:31 18/1/2004)
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Chris |
Message #49731, posted by cterran at 21:53, 16/1/2004 |
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I suspect from the logs that some people are linking to various graphics on www.photodesk.iconbar.com (as opposed to nicking them, which I don't really mind). As this uses up TIB's bandwidth -- it's theft, in effect -- I'd like to stop it if possible.
I seem to recall that this can be done by somehow redirecting external requests to some suitably admonitory replacement graphic, but I can't trace the details. Can anyone help? |
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Mark Scholes |
Message #49732, posted by mavhc at 22:05, 16/1/2004, in reply to message #49731 |
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Nothing that doesn't break when people try to download your files via something like wget |
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Andrew Duffell |
Message #49733, posted by ad at 22:35, 16/1/2004, in reply to message #49731 |
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I had this problem with the BannerCreate thing on http://banners.iconbar.com/ I used this code in a .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?banner(s)?.iconbar.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(png|jpg)$ http://banners.iconbar.com/bannercreate/img/hotlink.png [R,L]
I also put some PHP code in the files that create the images, but if you need that then say and I'll post it. |
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Chris |
Message #49790, posted by cterran at 15:23, 18/1/2004, in reply to message #49733 |
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Andrew: many thanks. Looks just the ticket. I'm using PHP to generate the web pages (it's the texture section that people are misusing), but not for the images themselves. Does that make a difference?
Mark: would you say the inability to use wget is important enough to warrant not using this approach? I could supply the textures as a separate file for download. |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #49791, posted by rich at 15:25, 18/1/2004, in reply to message #49790 |
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For a while wget was banned from the server anyway, unless the user was intelligent enough to specify a User-Agent, as it had been widely used as a spam harvesting tool. I *think* I got rid of that recently...
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Rich.
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Andrew Duffell |
Message #49792, posted by ad at 15:31, 18/1/2004, in reply to message #49790 |
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Andrew: many thanks. Looks just the ticket. I'm using PHP to generate the web pages (it's the texture section that people are misusing), but not for the images themselves. Does that make a difference?
If it is just the actually images that are being hot linked then the .htaccess thing should work. The one above is just set up for jpg and png file extentions, but you can add others such as gif and zip by adding |gif|zip after the png|jpg bit. |
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