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?
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.
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?
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.
07-13-2002, 07:10 AM
Stop bandwidth thievery?
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