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Title : Anti-Leech Attachments

Version : 1.1

Coder : Jason Williams

Purpose : Prevent your forum attachments from being directly linked to - prevent bandwidth abuse.

Why : Bandwidth can be expensive, plus I was frustrated with one of my members linking to three video clips on my forum from his own site, effectively abusing the bandwidth I pay for, so I set about a system that stops hotlinking, but at the same time, as a courtesy, providing a dynamic link to the post containing the attachment.

How : This could be replicated very easily using .htaccess but the one thing that it can't do is give you the link to the attachment itself. This mod displays a message informing the user that hotlinking is not allowed, then giving them the link to the post to view the attachment directly.

Known Issues : The security can be defeated by using the drop down style menu on the Anti Leech page - this has only been confirmed as an issue on Firefox. I have unsucessfully tried to find a way of removing the drop down on that page only.

Confirmed working with vBSEO 3.2.0.

Important : This has been tested on 3.6.2 and 3.8, I can presume it will be compatible with 3.7.x because it works on 3.8 - as always BACKUP FIRST!

Demo : http://www.steadiforum.com/attachmen...9&d=1180779148

Installation :

1. Import Product - product-antileech.xml
2. Save bandwidth!

File uploads : 0
Files to Import : 1
New Templates : 1
New Phrases : 2
Uses Hooks : 1
Uses Queries : 1

History :
v1.0 - Original release

v1.1 - Added enable/disable option, tested on VB 3.8

Done - if you like please click install! (and click Nominate for MOTM!)

Mrdby · #22 06-14-2007, 02:43 AM

3.6.7?

steadicamop · #23 06-14-2007, 06:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mrdby

3.6.7?

Untested - but I think in all honesty it should work, but feedback appreciated so I can update the most up to date version.

Cheers

Jason

Hornstar · #24 06-14-2007, 07:51 AM

Can I also request a couple extra features ^^

1. captcha - To ensure a use does not make a bot to download the image over and over to waste my bandwidth on the site, this will make each user who goes to download the image, to verify they are human first (kinda similar to rapidshare ^^ )

2. A count down time, which can be set from the admincp per usergroup, eg. this usergroup can be 10 seconds, this usergroup can be 60 seconds, this usergroup can be no count down timer etc. (kind of similar to rapidshare ^^ )

These 2 extra features integrated into this modification would defantly get my vote for mod of the month!

Barakat · #25 06-14-2007, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mrdby

3.6.7?

works perfect.

projectego · #26 06-14-2007, 02:49 PM

Great idea! This should be a default vBulletin feature! Thanks a bunch!

steadicamop · #27 06-14-2007, 07:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Can I also request a couple extra features ^^

1. captcha - To ensure a use does not make a bot to download the image over and over to waste my bandwidth on the site, this will make each user who goes to download the image, to verify they are human first (kinda similar to rapidshare ^^ )

2. A count down time, which can be set from the admincp per usergroup, eg. this usergroup can be 10 seconds, this usergroup can be 60 seconds, this usergroup can be no count down timer etc. (kind of similar to rapidshare ^^ )

These 2 extra features integrated into this modification would defantly get my vote for mod of the month!

Will see what I can do - will release it as a sub-release if I can do this.....

Jason

kether1 · #28 06-15-2007, 01:54 AM

I just gave this a try, but it would not work with my forum. 3.6.7 (VBSEO). I am guessing it was because my urls are rewritten? Not sure. It sure looks like a nice modification. Thanks for developing it Jason. If you think there is a way to make it work with re-written URLs, I will be installing it!

Regards,
Kether

steadicamop · #29 06-15-2007, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kether1

I just gave this a try, but it would not work with my forum. 3.6.7 (VBSEO). I am guessing it was because my urls are rewritten? Not sure. It sure looks like a nice modification. Thanks for developing it Jason. If you think there is a way to make it work with re-written URLs, I will be installing it!

Regards,
Kether

Can you copy and paste me a link to one of your attachments as it shows with VBSEO please? I will see what happens with the link and url....

Jason

kether1 · #30 06-15-2007, 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by steadicamop

Can you copy and paste me a link to one of your attachments as it shows with VBSEO please? I will see what happens with the link and url....

Jason

Hi Jason,

The attachment did not show with the modification enabled. Nothing showed. I already removed the modification from my board and was hoping that you would have a solution so that I could re-install when it was working correctly. Sorry to not have it installed any longer.

Thanks,
K

steadicamop · #31 06-15-2007, 06:44 PM

Hmmmm strange, I may install it to see what happens, it does sound like a rewrite issue though, but I'm just not too sure as it may be different for attachments as it is for threads and posts.

I've added this as a Known Issue for the moment while I look into it.

Jason

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