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Originally Posted by naveeid

if some one is not logging in but visits our website , he is a guest member. you can control guest permissions from the admin panel.

but if some one uses my website resources , hotlink my images in emails , sent it to large yahoo groups , place my website hotlinked images in forums , there is no option in VB4 to control that kind of hotlinking. and there was no modification available to stop the abuse of attachment.php. in this mod you can stop this kind of hotlinking. and save your server resources.

Well, you are wrong. I just tested in on the com with an attachment.php link from my site. If I was logged into my site at the same time, then, yes, the link would show the actual attachment. But if I was logged out of my site and clicked on the link that I posted on the com, it showed the registration error page from my site when I clicked on that link. So, your attachment.php code is ONLY good if the person is also logged into the site they are using it from, or if you allow guests to view and download attachments.

If you have the replacement image for the hotlinking on your site, the resources should be the same on your server as it still has to retrieve the image from your server.