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	Avoid hotlinking from stealing your bandwitdth!

stevemt

11-22-2006 10:45 PM

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stevemt says:

This is a good little snippet of advice on how to prevent and piss off people who link to your hosting content in order to leech off your bandwidth and content.

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  <P><STRONG id="sec8">Stop Hotlinking, Serve Alternate Content</STRONG> </p> <P>To serve ‘em some unexpected alternate content when hotlinking is detected, employ the following code, which will protect all files of the types included in the last line (add more types as needed). Remember to replace the dummy path names with real ones. Also, the name of the nasty image being served in this case is “eatme.jpe”, as indicated in the line containing the <CODE>RewriteRule</CODE>. Please advise that this method will also block services such as FeedBurner from accessing your images.</p> <P><CODE># stop hotlinking and serve alternate content</CODE>
<CODE>&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;</CODE>
<CODE>RewriteEngine on</CODE>
<CODE>RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$</CODE>
<CODE>RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?domain\.com/.*$ [NC]</CODE>
<CODE>RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg)$ http://www.domain.com/eatme.jpe [R,NC,L]</CODE>
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