Anti-Leeching ?

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Crazy Serb

that still doesn't prevent someone from entering the URL into the browser manually and getting to that file... anyone has a solution for that?

Not very likely since that's how a client [browser] fetches the image in the first place, so you would be blocking anyone from actually seeing it at all.

[Crazy Serb]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Not very likely since that's how a client [browser] fetches the image in the first place, so you would be blocking anyone from actually seeing it at all.

that's what I thought... damn.

vbulletin guys should code something to fix this for once...

[Limey-YMR]

Originally Posted by Tradjick

Simply create an .htaccess file in the folder(s) you want to protect with the following content:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?www.(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(avi|bmp|gif|jpeg|jpg|midi|mp3|mpeg|mpg|png|ra m|wav|wma|wmv)$ [F,NC]

This should prevent from anyone linking from the outside of your domain to your files.

Isn't the fetching of uploaded images on a forum a server side PHP function from attachment.php ?
will this prevent people from having the php fetch them an image uploaded to a forum?
obviously we can't prevent hotlinking to php or we would never get referred visitors, I just want to stop people leeching my jpg car images.