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X-Fan

07-13-2002 07:10 AM

Stop bandwidth thievery?

I've been having a big problem with bandwidth thieves of late, linking directly to images at my Web site from other sites, and I need to put a stop to it.

How can I set it up so that if someone tries to link directly to an image on my server it blocks them from doing so?

Admin

07-13-2002 07:13 AM

Use mod_rewrite... I don't have the exact syntax, but if you search Google for "mod_rewrite images stop bandwidth" I'm sure you'll come up with something. :)

Admin

07-13-2002 07:20 AM

<a href="http://www.bignosebird.com/apache/a13.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.bignosebird.com/apache/a13.shtml</a>

X-Fan

07-13-2002 08:59 AM

Worked perfectly!

Thanks a bunch, Chen!!!!

X-Fan

07-13-2002 09:32 AM

Actually, it worked a bit too perfectly. It's not only blocking other sites from loading up images at my site, but blocking my site from loading images in it as well!

I used my site's base URL's of x-mencomics.com and www.x-mencomics.com in the htaccess file, then tried adding the xfan subdirectory to the end of each and still no luck.

Any ideas how I can tweak it so as to stop it blocking my own site from loading images?

Admin

07-13-2002 10:44 AM

Try this:
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive...dththeft.shtml

X-Fan

07-13-2002 10:55 AM

Yeah, I found that site and tried their method too. It's still blocking images from loading on my site, as well as blocking them when linked to on other sites.

Admin

07-13-2002 10:58 AM

I really don't know then, sorry. Try asking at vB.com's Server Config forum, eva2000 will know the answer. :)

X-Fan

07-13-2002 11:15 AM

Shall do. Thanks for taking the time out to try and help, Chen!

Logician

07-13-2002 05:03 PM

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?s=&postid=271487" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attac...&postid=271487</a>

X-Fan

07-15-2002 02:18 PM

Thanks Logician, but I followed what the tutorial said to do (which was slightly different to the other methods) and still no go - the .htaccess file in my images directory is blocking my forums from loading files from the images directory and any sub-directories. :(

Logician

07-15-2002 05:26 PM

maybe you can ask your host.. They usually tend to help with .htaccess problems..

TECK	07-15-2002 05:59 PM

x-fan, what broswer do u use?
read this:

Quote:

Like the PHP and CGI solution, this method relies on the HTTP_REFERER being properly set by the visitor's browser. A number of modern browsers as well as some of the anonymous surfing proxies allow the user to change this header. These browsers or proxies will thus either transmit HTTP_REFERER headers that have some user-specified value or not bother to transmit them at all. There are also buggy browsers around that unpredictably transmit the wrong HTTP_REFERER header on occasion.

i'm sure that's your prob, the browser.

X-Fan

07-16-2002 12:30 AM

I'm using IE v6.0

Rapdis

09-07-2002 03:31 PM

the problem is the mod_rewrite is not installed on the server, and not installed on many server due to abuse, i need help asap, it cost me £155 this month, i really dont know what to do...

sum1 help!

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